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NAME

       rbot - IRC bot written in ruby

SYNOPSIS

       rbot [{[-d] | [--debug]} {[-h] | [--help]} {[-v] | [--version]} {[-l LEVEL] | [--loglevel LEVEL]} {[-b] | [--background]} {[-p PIDFILE] |
	    [--pidfile PIDFILE]}] [confdir]

DESCRIPTION

       rbot starts the Rbot (ruby IRC bot).

OPTIONS

       This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
       below.

       -d, --debug
	   Display debug information (very verbose).

       -h, --help
	   Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	   Display version information.

       -l LEVEL, --loglevel LEVEL
	   Sets the minimum log level verbosity. Possible values for the loglevel are 0 (DEBUG), 1 (INFO), 2 (WARN), 3 (ERROR), 4 (FATAL). The
	   default loglevel is 1 (INFO messages). The logfile is located at BOTDIR/BOTNAME.log and doesn't contain IRC logs (which are located at
	   BOTDIR/logs/*), but only rbot diagnostic messages.

       -b, --background
	   Background (daemonize) the bot.

       -p PIDFILE, --pidfile PIDFILE
	   Write the bot pid to PIDFILE. The default pidfile is BOTDIR/rbot.pid.

       BOTDIR
	   Path to the directory where are stored the bot's configuration files. The default config directory is ~/.rbot.

VERSION

       This manual page was written by Marc Dequenes (Duck) Duck@DuckCorp.org for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

AUTHORS

       Marc Dequenes <Duck@DuckCorp.org>
	   Debian(TM) package maintainer

       Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
	   rbot maintainer

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Marc Dequenes (Duck)
       Copyright (C) 2010 Giuseppe Bilotta

rbot 0.9.15							     20100701								   RBOT(1)