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       -h     Print a short help text and exit.
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34              Use hostname as hostname when creating servers.
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38              Use ports in the range from-to (inclusive) for started  servers.
39              It  is advised not to include port 5555 in the range.  (See BUGS
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ENVIRONMENT

44       The default settings of the meta-server can be influenced with the fol‐
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48              The  hostname  the meta-server will use when creating new games.
49              This should be a hostname that can be resolved  by  all  clients
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53              The  path  to  pioneers-server-console.   If  it is not set, the
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57              The path to the game definition files.  If it is  not  set,  the
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FILES

62       /usr/share/games/pioneers/*.game
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BUGS

67       pioneers-server-console  uses port 5555 for its admin connection.  This
68       means that only the first server  started  from  the  meta-server  will
69       actually  succeed  in binding to that.  For all subsequent servers, the
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AUTHOR

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