2 .\" ngircd(8) manual page template
4 .TH ngircd 8 "Dec 2010" ngircd "ngIRCd Manual"
6 ngIRCd \- the next generation IRC daemon
13 is a free open source daemon for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC),
14 developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
16 It's written from scratch and is not based upon the original IRCd like
17 many others. It is easy to configure, supports server links (even with
18 original ircd's) and runs on hosts with changing IP addresses (such as
21 Currently supported platforms include AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX,
22 Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
24 As ngIRCd relies on UNIX standards and uses GNU automake and GNU autoconf
25 there are good chances that it also supports other UNIX-based operating
26 systems as well. By default, ngIRCd writes diagnostic and informational messages using
29 The default behavior of
31 is to read its standard configuration file (see below), to detach from the
32 controlling terminal and to wait for clients.
34 You can use these options to modify this default:
36 \fB\-f\fR \fIfile\fR, \fB\-\-config\fR \fIfile\fR
39 as configuration file.
41 \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nodaemon\fR
42 Don't fork a child and don't detach from controlling terminal.
43 All log messages go to the console and you can use CTRL-C to
46 \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-passive\fR
47 Disable automatic connections to other servers. You can use the IRC command
48 CONNECT later on as IRC Operator to link this ngIRCd to other servers.
50 \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-configtest\fR
51 Read, validate and display the configuration; then exit.
53 \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
54 Output version information and exit.
56 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
57 Display a brief help text and exit.
59 .I :ETCDIR:/ngircd.conf
61 The system wide default configuration file.
63 .I :ETCDIR:/ngircd.motd
65 Default "message of the day" (MOTD).
68 The daemon understands the following signals:
71 Shut down all connections and terminate the daemon.
74 Shut down all listening sockets, re-read the configuration file and
75 re-initialize the daemon.
77 It's wise to use "ngircd \-\-configtest" to validate the configuration file
80 When ngIRCd is compiled with debug code, that is, its source code has
81 been ./configure'd with "--enable-debug" and/or "--enable-sniffer" (witch
82 enables debug mode automatically as well), you can use two more command
83 line options and two more signals to debug problems with the daemon itself
88 \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-debug\fR
89 Enable debug mode and log extra messages.
91 \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-sniffer\fR
92 Enable IRC protocol sniffer, which logs all sent and received IRC commands to
93 the console/syslog. This option requires that ngIRCd has been ./configure'd
94 with "--enable-sniffer" and enables debug mode automatically, too.
99 Toggle debug mode on and off during runtime.
102 Dump internal server state to the console/syslog when debug mode is on (use
103 command line option \-\-debug or signal USR1).
105 Alexander Barton, <alex@barton.de>
107 Florian Westphal, <fw@strlen.de>
109 Homepage: http://ngircd.barton.de/