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-.TH ngircd 8 "Oct 2012" ngIRCd "ngIRCd Manual"
+.TH ngircd 8 "May 2020" ngIRCd "ngIRCd Manual"
.SH NAME
ngIRCd \- the "next generation" IRC daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IR "lightweight Internet Relay Chat server"
most probably would have been a better name :-)
.PP
-Currently supported platforms include AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX,
-Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
-.PP
+Currently supported platforms include AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Hurd, IRIX,
+Linux, Mac OS X, Minix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
As ngIRCd relies on UNIX standards and uses GNU automake and GNU autoconf
there are good chances that it also supports other UNIX-based operating
-systems as well. By default, ngIRCd writes diagnostic and informational
-messages using the syslog mechanism.
+systems as well.
+.PP
+By default ngIRCd logs diagnostic and informational messages using the syslog
+mechanism, or writes directly to the console when running in the foreground
+(see below).
.SH OPTIONS
The default behavior of
.BR ngircd