lambdamoo - server for an online multiuser virtual world

lambdamoo [-e] [-l log-file] input-db-file output-db-file [+O|-O] [-a ip_address] [[-p] port]

Lambdamoo is a server for a online multiuser virtual world, or MOO. The server reads in a lambdamoo database, accepts user connections, and when shut down, dumps the database to an output file.

Lambdamoo contains a built in programming language, but documenting that is beyond the scope of this man page. See the lambdamoo programmers manual and the lambdamoo user's manual found in the lambdamoo-docs package for more information.

-e

Start lambdamoo in emergency single-user mode. In this mode, you are automatically logged into the server as wizard, and noone else can connect.

-l log-file

Output logs to the specified log file, instead of to standard output.

input-db-file

Lambdamoo database to load on startup.

output-db-file

Lambdamoo database to checkpoint to and save to when the moo is shut down.

+O, -O

Allow and disallow the server to make outbound connections over the internet.

-a ip_address

Set the IP address you want the server to listen on.

-p port

Port to listen on for user connections. Default is 7777.

It is highly recommended that you run this server program inside a chroot jail, with user permissions other than root. Debian has several packages which can help you with this. To have this server automatically started, stopped, and restarted at the appropriate times, such as system bootup, I recommend you install and use the daemontools package.

This manual page was originally written by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.