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NAME

pioneers-metaserver - metaserver for Pioneers

SYNOPSIS

pioneers-metaserver [options]

DESCRIPTION

Pioneers is an implementation of the popular, award-winning "Settlers
of Catan" board game. It uses a client/server model for networked
play. This program provides a piece of network infrastructure that
helps match pioneers clients to pioneers servers. Casual players of
pioneers probably do not need to run this program.

OPTIONS

-?, --help
Print a short help text and exit.

-d, --daemon
Run in daemon mode.

-P, --pidfile pidfile
Write the pid to pidfile (implies -d)

-r, --redirect location
Redirect to another metaserver running at location.

-s, --servername hostname
Use hostname as hostname when creating servers.

-p, --port-range from-to
Use ports in the range from-to (inclusive) to start servers.
When this range is not specified, the metaserver will not be
able to create new games.

--debug
Enable debug messages.

--syslog-debug
Duplicate the messages of the syslog to the console.

--version
Show version information.

ENVIRONMENT

The default settings of the metaserver can be influenced with the
following three environment variables:

PIONEERS_METASERVER
The hostname the metaserver will use when creating new games.
This should be a hostname that can be resolved by all clients
that will connect.

PIONEERS_SERVER_CONSOLE
The path (including the filename) to pioneers-server-console.
If it contains only a filename and no path or if it is not
set, the PATH variable in the environment is used to locate
the program.

PIONEERS_DIR
The path to the game definition files. If it is not set, the
default installation path will be used.

FILES

/usr/share/games/pioneers/*.game
Game definitions

SIGNALS

SIGINT
Shutdown the metaserver gracefully (can also be used to check
for memory leaks)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debian.org>,
and updated by Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> and Bas Wijnen
<shevek@fmf.nl>. Pioneers was written by Dave Cole
<dave@dccs.com.au>, Andy Heroff <aheroff@mediaone.net>, and Roman
Hodek <roman@hodek.net>, with contributions from many other
developers on the Internet; see the AUTHORS file in the pioneers
distribution or the help->about dialog in one of the graphical
programs for a complete list of contributing authors.