2 .\" $Id: ngircd.8,v 1.11 2005/08/12 13:20:54 alex Exp $
4 .TH ngircd 8 "August 2005" 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
28 The default behaviour of
30 is to read its standard configuration file (see below), to detach from the
31 controlling terminal and to wait for clients.
33 You can use these options to modify this default:
35 \fB\-f\fR \fIfile\fR, \fB\-\-config\fR \fIfile\fR
38 as configuration file.
40 \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nodaemon\fR
41 Don't fork a child and don't detach from controlling terminal.
42 All log messages go to the console and you can use CTRL-C to
45 \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-passive\fR
46 Disable automatic connections to other servers. You can use the IRC command
47 CONNECT later on as IRC Operator to link this ngIRCd to other servers.
49 \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-configtest\fR
50 Read, validate and display the configuration; then exit.
53 Output version information and exit.
56 Display a brief help text and exit.
58 .I /usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf
60 The system wide default configuration file.
62 .I /usr/local/etc/ngircd.motd
64 Default "message of the day" (MOTD).
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