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-.TH ngircd 8 "Oct 2012" ngIRCd "ngIRCd Manual"
+.TH ngircd 8 "Jan 2021" ngIRCd "ngIRCd Manual"
.SH NAME
ngIRCd \- the "next generation" IRC daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR ngIRCd
is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small
or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
-It is easy to configure, can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and supports
-IPv6, SSL-protected connections as well as PAM for authentication.
-It is written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd.
+.PP
+The server is quite easy to configure, can handle dynamic IP addresses, and
+optionally supports IDENT, IPv6 connections, SSL-protected links, and PAM for
+user authentication as well as character set conversion for legacy clients. The
+server has been written from scratch and is not based on the "forefather", the
+daemon of the IRCNet.
.PP
The name ngIRCd means
-.IR "next generation IRC daemon",
+.IR "next-generation IRC daemon",
which is a little bit exaggerated:
.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
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