dancer-ircd - an IRC server

ircd

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

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.

-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.

(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

/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

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.

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).