dancer-ircd(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    dancer-ircd(8)

NAME

       dancer-ircd - an IRC server

SYNOPSIS

       ircd   [-d filename] [-f filename] [-h hostname] [-k filename] [-l filename] [-n] [-v] [-x debuglevel]

DESCRIPTION

       dancer-ircd  is the IRC server used by FreeNode Network (amongst others), built in an effort to overcome the anachronisms, limitations, and
       hysterical raisins of traditional IRC servers.

OPTIONS

       -d filename
	      Where to find the D:line config file.

       -f filename
	      Where to find the main config file.

       -h hostname
	      Specify the server name this ircd will be. This should usually match it's primary hostname.

       -k filename
	      Where to find the K:line config file.

       -l filename
	      Where to write the logfile.

       -n     Do not fork, run in the foreground.

       -v     Print version and exit.

       -x debuglevel
	      Sets the debug level. Higher is more data. Only effective if the ircd was compiled for debugging.

COPYRIGHT

       (c) 1988,1989 University of Oulu, Computing Center, Finland,

       (c) 1988,1989 Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Finland

       (c) 1988,1989,1990,1991 Jarkko Oikarinen

       (c) 1999-2003 Andrew Suffield

       Various other people have written or contributed to this ircd, see connect to it and use "/info" in your IRC client for a fuller list.

       See /usr/share/doc/dancer-ircd/copyright

FILES

	/etc/dancer-ircd/ircd.conf
	/etc/dancer-ircd/olines
	/etc/dancer-ircd/motd
	/etc/dancer-ircd/omotd
	/etc/dancer-ircd/ohelp
	/var/lib/dancer-ircd/dline.conf
	/var/lib/dancer-ircd/kline.conf

SEE ALSO

       There is more detailed documentation on some of the features of dancer-ircd to be found in /usr/share/doc/dancer-ircd, contained within the
       dancer-ircd-doc package.

AUTHOR

       Jarkko	Oikarinen,   currently	jto@tolsun.oulu.fi,  manual  page  written  by	Jeff  Trim,  jtrim@orion.cair.du.edu,  later  modified	by
       jto@tolsun.oulu.fi.

       Rewritten 2001 by Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								   7 August 2001						    dancer-ircd(8)