giftd - Daemon component for the giFT project

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giftd is a modular deamon capable of abstracting the communication between the end user and specific filesharing protocols (peer-to-peer or otherwise). This giFT daemon is the main core of the system, but will not be useful without a controlling interface (known as a giFT client or interface) and a protocol plugin.

Please note that the bulk of the run-time options are controlled through the daemon and plugin configuration files. See the FILES section for more information.

-h, --help

Show a short overview of all options

-V, --version

Output version information and exit.

-d, --daemon

Fork to the background as a daemon would.

-x, --index-only

Update the shares database and exit

-o<VAL>, --opt=<VAL>

Run-time configuration override. The format of the value string is as follows:

plugin:/group/key=value

For example, if you wish to change OpenFT's lan_mode switch via this interface, you would use:

openft:/local/lan_mode=1

-p<VAL>, --protocol=<VAL>

Load the specified plugin (overrides giftd.conf(5)). from file. Plugins specified here can be treated as a single member in gift:/main/plugins. You may specify this option multiple times on the command line.

-q, --quiet

Disable logging entirely. Overrides -v and -l.

-v, --verbose

Increase the verbosity level (default=0). Currently, the only meaningful level is 1, where all output will be printed to the normal log facility, as well as to stderr. If you wish to change the default logging path to stderr only, you should use -v in conjunction with -l/dev/null.

-l<VAL>, --logfile=<VAL>

Use the log path specified by <VAL> instead of the default ~/.giFT/giftd.log.

~/.giFT/giftd.conf

Generic configuration for giFT, see giftd.conf(5) for more information

~/.giFT/giftd.log

Debug information. A clean file is used every startup.

~/.giFT/access.log

Apache-style access log. Can be used to generate fancy statistics, although it's not very reliable. (Often only chunks of files have been downloaded from you.)

~/.giFT/shares

Share database containing all cached meta and hashing data about your shares. Removal of this file will force a clean rebuild of all this data.

giFT is currently development software. This means that the stability of the project cannot always be guaranteed, and as such we strongly encourage constructive debugging feedback that will help us mature the project as best we can. Please consult the documentation available at http://www.giftproject.org/ so that you might use the proper channels requested by the development staff.

Josh Guilfoyle <jasta@devtcg.org>

Eelco Lempsink <eelco@33lc0.net>

giftd.conf(5), OpenFT.conf(5), http://gift.sourceforge.net/docs.php