1QOTDD(8)                    System Manager's Manual                   QOTDD(8)
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NAME

6       qotdd - A daemon to provide an interesting quote every day.
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SYNOPSIS

9       qotdd [OPTION]...
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11       qotdd [--help | --version]
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DESCRIPTION

14       QOTD  (quote of the day) is specified in RFC 865 as a way of broadcast‐
15       ing a quote to users. On both  TCP  and  UDP,  port  17  is  officially
16       reserved  for  this purpose. qotdd(8) is meant to provide a simple QOTD
17       daemon on IPv4 and/or IPv6 on either TCP or UDP.
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19       Mandatory arguments to long options are  mandatory  for  short  options
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22       -f, --foreground
23              Do not fork, but run in the foreground.
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25       -c, --config config-file
26              Specify an alternate configuration file location. The default is
27              at `/etc/qotd.conf'. (Overrides a previous -c or -N option)
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29       -N, --noconfig
30              Do not read from a  configuration  file,  but  use  the  default
31              options instead. (Overrides a previous -c option)
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33       --lax  Disable  strict  configuration parsing. Without this option, the
34              daemon will perform security checks on  input  files.  Be  aware
35              that  using this option makes the program vulnerable to confused
36              deputy attacks.
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38       For more information on the following three options, see qotd.conf(5):
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40       -P, --pidfile pidfile
41              Override the pidfile name given in the configuration  file  with
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45              Override  the  quotes  file given in the configuration file with
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49              Overrides the journal file given in the configuration file  with
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52       -4, --ipv4
53              Only  listen  on IPv4. The default behavior is to listen on both
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59       -t, --tcp
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66              Only output error messages. This is the same as using `--journal
67              /dev/null'.
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69       --help List all options and what they do.
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72              Print the version and some basic license information.
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RETURN CODES

75       qotdd has the following return codes:
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77       0      success
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83       18     invalid configuration file or settings
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85       19     failed a security check
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93       23     unsupported operation
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SEE ALSO

98       qotd.conf(5), telnet(1), netcat(1)
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AUTHOR

101       Ammon Smith (ammon.i.smith@gmail.com)
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105qotd 0.11.1                       2016-01-29                          QOTDD(8)