pioneers-meta-server(6)

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NAME

6       pioneers-meta-server - meta game server for Pioneers
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SYNOPSIS

10       pioneers-meta-server [options]
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DESCRIPTION

14       Pioneers is a computerized version of a well known strategy board game.
15       The goal of the game is to colonize an island.  The  players  play  the
16       first colonists hence the name pioneers.  It uses a client/server model
17       for networked play. This program provides a  piece  of  network  infra‐
18       structure that helps match pioneers clients to pioneers servers. Casual
19       players of pioneers probably do not need to run this program.
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OPTIONS

23       -?, --help
24              Print a short help text and exit.
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28              Run in daemon mode.
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32              Write the pid to pidfile (implies -d)
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36              Redirect to another meta-server running at location.
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40              Use hostname as hostname when creating servers.
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44              Use ports in the range from-to (inclusive) to start servers.  It
45              is  advised  not  to  include port 5557 in the range.  (See BUGS
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ENVIRONMENT

63       The default settings of the meta-server can be influenced with the fol‐
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67              The hostname the meta-server will use when creating  new  games.
68              This  should  be  a hostname that can be resolved by all clients
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72              The path to pioneers-server-console.  If  it  is  not  set,  the
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76              The  path  to  the game definition files.  If it is not set, the
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81       /usr/share/games/pioneers/*.game
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BUGS

86       Do not include port 5557 in the --port-range argument because the meta-
87       server uses this port.
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AUTHOR

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