.\" @(#)ircd.8 2.0 (beta version) 29 Mar 1989
-.TH IRCD 8 "29 March 1989"
+.TH IRCD 8 "10 July 2000"
.SH NAME
-ircd \- The Internet Relay Chat Program Server
+ircd \- The Undernet Internet Relay Chat Daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.hy 0
.IP \fBircd\fP
-[-a] [-c] [-i] [-o] [-q] [-t] [-d directory]
-[-f configfile] [-w interface] [-x debuglevel] [-h hostname] [-p portnum]
+[-t] [-d directory] [-f configfile] [-x debuglevel] [-h hostname]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
-\fIircd\fP is the server (daemon) program for the Internet Relay Chat
-Program. The \fIircd\fP is a server in that its function is to "serve"
+\fIircd\fP is the Undernet Internet Relay Chat daemon.
+\fIircd\fP is a server in that its function is to "serve"
the client program \fIirc(1)\fP with messages and commands. All commands
-and user messages are passed directly to the \fIircd\fP for processing
-and relaying to other ircd sites. The \fIirc(1)\fP program depends upon
-there being an \fIircd\fP server running somewhere (either on your local
-UNIX site or a remote ircd site) so that it will have somewhere to connect
-to and thus allow the user to begin talking to other users.
+and user messages are passed directly to \fIircd\fP for processing
+and relaying to other servers. \fIirc(1)\fP depends upon
+there being an \fIircd\fP server running somewhere for it to connect to
+and thus allow the user to begin talking to other users.
+.LP
+There are many common clients including ircII, EPIC, and BitchX for UNIX,
+mIRC and pIRCh for Windows, and IRCle and Homer for the Macintosh.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-d directory
that as a reference point when opening \fIircd.conf\fP and other startup
files.
.TP
-.B \-o
-Starts up a local ircdaemon. Standard input can be used to send IRC
-commands to the daemon. The user logging in from standard input will
-be given operator privileges on this local ircd. If ircd is a setuid program,
-it will call setuid(getuid()) before going to local mode. This option
-can be used in inetd.conf to allow users to open their own irc clients
-by simply connecting their clients to the correct ports. For example:
-.TP
-.B
-irc stream tcp nowait irc /etc/ircd ircd \\-f/etc/ircd.conf \\-o
-
-allows users connecting to irc port (specified in /etc/services) to start
-up their own ircdaemon. The configuration file should be used to check from
-which hosts these connections are allowed from. This option also turns
-on the autodie option -a.
-.TP
-.B \-a
-Instructs the server to automatically die off if it loses all it's clients.
-.TP
.B \-t
-Instructs the server run in the foreground and to direct debugging output to standard output.
+Instructs the server run in the foreground and to direct debugging output to
+standard output.
.TP
.B \-x#
-Defines the debuglevel for ircd. The higher the debuglevel, the more stuff
-gets directed to debugging file (or standard output if -t option was used
-as well).
-.TP
-.B \-i
-The server was started by inetd and it should start accepting connections
-from standard input. The following inetd.conf-line could be used to start
-up ircd automatically when needed:
-.TP
-.B
-ircd stream tcp wait irc /etc/ircd ircd \-i
-
-allows inetd to start up ircd on request.
+Defines the debug level for \fIircd\fP. The higher the debug level, the more
+messages get directed to debugging file (or standard output if the -t option is
+used).
.TP
.B \-w interface
-If the server was compiled with VIRTUAL_HOST (run 'make config' to toggle
-this compile option), then \fIinterface\fP is passed to gethostbyname(3) in
-order to retrieve the IP-number of the interface to bind to. An example
-would be to use '-w localhost', after which the server only listens on the
-loopback interface. Run `ifconfig -a' to see which interfaces you have.
+This option is deprecated. Outgoing connections are bound to the
+interface specified in the M: line, and incoming connections are accepted only on
+interfaces specified in the P: lines.
.TP
.B \-f filename
-Specifies the ircd.conf file to be used for this ircdaemon. The option
-is used to override the default ircd.conf given at compile time.
+Specifies the \fIircd.conf\fP file to be used for this server. The option
+is used to override the default \fIircd.conf\fP given at compile time.
.TP
.B \-c
-This flag must be given if you are running ircd from \fI/dev/console\fP or
-any other situation where fd 0 isnt a tty and you want the server to fork
+This flag must be given if you are running \fIircd\fP from \fI/dev/console\fP or
+any other situation where fd 0 isn't a TTY and you want the server to fork
off and run in the background. This needs to be given if you are starting
\fIircd\fP from an \fIrc\fP (such as \fI/etc/rc.local\fP) file.
.TP
-.B \-q
-Using the -q option stops the server from doing DNS lookups on all the
-servers in your \fIircd.conf\fP file when it boots. This can take a lengthy
-amount of time if you have a large number of servers and they are not all
-close by.
-.TP
.B \-h hostname
Allows the user to manually set the server name at startup. The default
name is hostname.domainname.
-.B \-p portname
-Specifies the server port where the daemon should start waiting for connections
-from other servers. Clients should connect to ports as specified in the ircd.conf file by means of a P: line.
.TP
-.SH
-If you plan to connect your \fIircd\fP server to an existing Irc-Network,
-you will need to alter your local IRC CONFIGURATION FILE (typically named
-"ircd.conf") so that it will accept and make connections to other \fIircd\fP
-servers. This file contains the hostnames, Network Addresses, and sometimes
-passwords for connections to other ircds around the world. Because
-description of the actual file format of the "ircs.conf" file is beyond the
-scope of this document, please refer to the file INSTALL in the IRC source
-files documentation directory.
+.B \-p portname
+This is deprecated in favor of specifying server ports in P: lines.
+
+.SH CONFIGURATION
+If you plan to connect your \fIircd\fP server to an existing IRC network,
+you will need to alter your local \fIircd\fP configuration file (typically named
+\fIircd.conf\fP) so that it will accept and make connections to other IRC
+servers. This file contains the hostnames, network addresses, and
+passwords for connections to other IRC servers around the world. Because
+the description of the \fIircd.conf\fP file is beyond the scope of this
+document, please refer to the INSTALL file in the \fIircd\fP
+documentation directory.
.LP
BOOTING THE SERVER: The \fIircd\fP server can be started as part of the
UNIX boot procedure or just by placing the server into Unix Background.
.RE
.SH FILES
/etc/utmp
- "irc.conf"
+ "ircd.conf"
.SH "SEE ALSO"
irc(1)
.SH BUGS
-None... ;-) if somebody finds one, please inform author
+See the file 'BUGS' included in the distribution.
.SH 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.
+The current authors of the undernet IRC daemon are coder-com@undernet.org,
+the original author was Jarkko Oikarinen.
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