pioneers-metaserver(6)

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NAME

6       pioneers-metaserver - metaserver for Pioneers
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SYNOPSIS

10       pioneers-metaserver [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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27       -d, --daemon
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 metaserver 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.
45              When  this  range  is  not specified, the metaserver will not be
46              able to create new games.
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54              Duplicate the messages of the syslog to the console.
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ENVIRONMENT

62       The default settings of the metaserver can be influenced with the  fol‐
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65       PIONEERS_METASERVER
66              The  hostname  the  metaserver will use when creating new games.
67              This should be a hostname that can be resolved  by  all  clients
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70       PIONEERS_SERVER_CONSOLE
71              The  path  (including  the filename) to pioneers-server-console.
72              If it contains only a filename and no path or if it is not  set,
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77              The path to the game definition files.  If it is  not  set,  the
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FILES

82       /usr/share/games/pioneers/*.game
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SIGNALS

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

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