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ngircd(8)							   ngIRCd Manual							 ngircd(8)

NAME

       ngIRCd - the next generation IRC daemon

SYNOPSIS

       ngircd [ Options ]

DESCRIPTION

       ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

       It's  written  from  scratch and is not based upon the original IRCd like many others. It is easy to configure, supports server links (even
       with original ircd's) and runs on hosts with changing IP addresses (such as dial-in networks).

       Currently supported platforms include AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, 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.

OPTIONS

       The  default behavior of ngircd is to read its standard configuration file (see below), to detach from the controlling terminal and to wait
       for clients.

       You can use these options to modify this default:

       -f file, --config file
	      Use file as configuration file.

       -n, --nodaemon
	      Don't fork a child and don't detach from controlling terminal.  All log messages go to the console and you can use CTRL-C to  termi-
	      nate the server.

       -p, --passive
	      Disable  automatic connections to other servers. You can use the IRC command CONNECT later on as IRC Operator to link this ngIRCd to
	      other servers.

       -t, --configtest
	      Read, validate and display the configuration; then exit.

       -V, --version
	      Output version information and exit.

       -h, --help
	      Display a brief help text and exit.

FILES

       /etc/ngircd/ngircd.conf
	      The system wide default configuration file.
       /etc/ngircd/ngircd.motd
	      Default "message of the day" (MOTD).

SIGNALS

       The daemon understands the following signals:

       TERM   Shut down all connections and terminate the daemon.

       HUP    Shut down all listening sockets, re-read the configuration file and re-initialize the daemon.

HINTS

       It's wise to use "ngircd --configtest" to validate the configuration file after changing it.

DEBUGGING

       When ngIRCd is compiled with debug code, that is, its source code has been ./configure'd with  "--enable-debug"	and/or	"--enable-sniffer"
       (witch enables debug mode automatically as well), you can use two more command line options and two more signals to debug problems with the
       daemon itself or IRC clients:

       Options:

       -d, --debug
	      Enable debug mode and log extra messages.

       -s, --sniffer
	      Enable IRC protocol sniffer, which logs all sent and received IRC commands to the console/syslog. This option requires  that  ngIRCd
	      has been ./configure'd with "--enable-sniffer" and enables debug mode automatically, too.

       Signals:

       USR1   Toggle debug mode on and off during runtime.

       USR2   Dump internal server state to the console/syslog when debug mode is on (use command line option --debug or signal USR1).

AUTHORS

       Alexander Barton, <alex@barton.de>
       Florian Westphal, <fw@strlen.de>

       Homepage: http://ngircd.barton.de/

SEE ALSO

       ngircd.conf(5), ircd(8)

ngircd								     Mar 2012								 ngircd(8)

proftpd(8)                                                    System Manager's Manual                                                   proftpd(8)

NAME

       proftpd - Professional configurable, secure file transfer protocol server

SYNOPSIS

       proftpd [ -hlntv ] [ -c config-file ] [ -d debuglevel ] [ -p 0|1 ]

DESCRIPTION

       proftpd  is the Professional File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server daemon.  The server may be invoked by the Internet "super-server" inetd(8)
       each time a connection to the FTP service is made, or alternatively it can be run as a standalone daemon.

       When proftpd is run in standalone mode and it receives a SIGHUP then it will reread its configuration file.  When run  in  standalone  mode
       without  the  -n  option,  the  main  proftpd daemon writes its process ID to /var/run/proftpd.pid to make it easy to know which process to
       SIGHUP.

OPTIONS

       -h,--help   Display a short usage description, including all available options.

       -n,--nodaemon
                   Runs the proftpd process in standalone mode (must be configured as such in the configuration file), but does not background the
                   process  or  disassociate  it  from  the controlling tty.  Additionally, all output (log or debug messages) are sent to stderr,
                   rather than the syslog mechanism.  Most often used with the -d option for debugging.

       -q,--quiet  Quiet mode; don't send logging information to standard error when running with the -n option.

       -v,--version
                   Displays the version number of ProFTPD to stdout.

       -D,--define parameter
                   Sets a configuration parameter which can be used <IfDefine>...</IfDefine> sections in the configuration files to  conditionally
                   skip or process commands.

       -d,--debug debuglevel
                   Sets  proftpd's internal debug level (normally 0).  The debuglevel should be an integer value from 0 to 10, with higher numbers
                   producing more debug output.  Normally, debug messages are sent to syslog using the DEBUG facility, however if the -n option is
                   used, all such output is sent to stderr.

       -c,--config config-file
                   Specifies an alternate config-file to be parsed at startup, rather than the default configuration file.  The default configura-
                   tion file is /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

       -N,--nocollision
                   Disables address/port collision checking.

       -V,--settings
                   Displays various compile-time settings and exits.

       -S,--serveraddr
                   Specifies an IP address for the host machine, avoiding an DNS lookup of the hostname

       -t,--configtest
                   Read the configuration file, report any syntax errors, and exit.

       -p,--persistent 0|1
                   Disables (0) or enables (1) the default persistent password support, which is determined at configure time for  each  platform.
                   This option only affects the default support, it can still be overridden at run-time with the PersistentPasswd directive.

       -l,--list   Lists all modules compiled into proftpd.

       -4,--ipv4   Support IPv4 functionality only, regardless of whether the --enable-ipv6 configure option was used.

       -6,--ipv6   Support  IPv6  connections and lookup of IPv6 addresses for server DNS names.  This is enabled by default, if the --enable-ipv6
                   configure option is used.

FILES

       /usr/sbin/proftpd
       /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
       /usr/bin/ftpwho
       /usr/bin/ftpcount
       /usr/bin/ftptop
       /usr/sbin/ftpshut
       /var/log/xferlog
       /var/run/proftpd.pid
       /var/run/proftpd.scoreboard

AUTHORS

       ProFTPD is written and maintained by a number of people, full credits can be found on http://www.proftpd.org/credits.html

SEE ALSO

       inetd(8),ftp(1),ftpwho(1),ftpcount(1),ftpshut(8)

       Full documentation on ProFTPD, including configuration and FAQs, is available at http://www.proftpd.org/

       For help/support, try the ProFTPD mailing lists, detailed on http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html

       Report bugs at http://bugs.proftpd.org/

                                                                     July 2000                                                          proftpd(8)