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6 wesnothd - Battle for Wesnoth multiplayer network daemon
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9 wesnothd [-dv] [-c path] [-p port] [-t number] [-T number]
10 wesnothd -V
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13 Manages Battle for Wesnoth multiplayer games. See https://www.wes‐
14 noth.org/wiki/ServerAdministration on what commands the server accepts
15 via the wesnoth client (/query ...) or the fifo.
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18 -c path, --config path
19 tells wesnothd where to find the config file to use. See the
20 section SERVER CONFIG below for the syntax. You can reload the
21 config with sending SIGHUP to the server process.
22 -d, --daemon
24 runs wesnothd as a daemon.
25 -h, --help
27 tells you what the command line options do.
28 --log-level=domain1,domain2,...
30 sets the severity level of the log domains. all can be used to
31 match any log domain. Available levels: error, warn‐
32 ing, info, debug. By default the error level is used and the
33 info level for the server domain.
34 -p port, --port port
36 binds the server to the specified port. If no port is specified,
37 port 15000 will be used.
38 -t number, --threads number
40 sets the maximum number of waiting worker threads for network
41 I/O to n (default: 5, max: 30).
42 -T number, --max-threads number
44 sets the maximum number of worker threads that will be created.
45 If set to 0 there will be no limit (default: 0).
46 -V, --version
48 shows version number and exits.
49 -v, --verbose
51 turns debug logging on.
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54 The general syntax is:
55 [tag]
56 key="value"
58 key="value,value,..."
60 [/tag]
62 Global keys:
64 allow_remote_shutdown
65 If set to no (default), shut_down and restart requests are ig‐
66 nored unless they come from the fifo. Set it to yes to allow
67 remote shutdown via a /query by an administrator.
68 ban_save_file
70 Full or relative path to a (gzip compressed) file that the
71 server can read and write. Bans will be saved to this file and
72 read again on server start.
73 compress_stored_rooms
75 Determines whether the rooms file should be read and written to
76 in compressed form. Defaults to yes.
77 connections_allowed
79 The number of allowed connections from the same IP. 0 means in‐
80 finite. (default: 5)
81 disallow_names
83 Names/nicks that are not accepted by the server. * and ? from
84 wildcard patterns are supported. See glob(7) for more details.
85 Default values (used if nothing is specified) are: *ad‐
86 min*,*admln*,*server*,ai,ai?,computer,human,network,player.
87 fifo_path
89 The path to the fifo you can echo server commands into (same as
90 /query ... from wesnoth). If not specified defaults to the com‐
91 pile-time path (default: /var/run/wesnothd/socket).
92 max_messages
94 The number of allowed messages in messages_time_period. (de‐
95 fault: 4)
96 messages_time_period
98 The time period (in seconds) message flooding is detected in.
99 (default: 10 seconds)
100 motd The message of the day.
102 new_room_policy
104 Determines who can create new rooms on the server. Available
105 values are everyone, registered, admin and nobody, and give the
106 permission respectively to everyone, registered users, admin
107 users or disables new room creation. Default value is everyone.
108 passwd The password used to gain admin privileges (via /query admin
110 password).
111 replay_save_path
113 The directory where the server stores game replays. (Don't for‐
114 get the trailing /!) Defaults to `' which means the directory
115 wesnothd was started in.
116 restart_command
118 The command that the server uses to start a new server process
119 via the restart command. (Can only be issued via the fifo. See
120 the allow_remote_shutdown setting.)
121 room_save_file
123 Path to a file where the room info should be stored. This file
124 is read on server startup and written to later. If empty or not
125 set, rooms are not loaded and not saved.
126 save_replays
128 Defines whether the server will automatically save replays of
129 games. (default: false)
130 versions_accepted
132 A comma separated list of version strings to be accepted by the
133 server. * and ? from wildcard patterns are supported. (defaults
134 to the corresponding wesnoth version)
135 Example: versions_accepted="*" accepts any version string.
136 deny_unregistered_login
138 Whether to prevent users who are not registered with the
139 user_handler being used from logging in. (default: false)
140 Global tags:
142 [redirect] A tag to specify a server to redirect certain client ver‐
143 sions to.
144 host The address of the server to redirect to.
146 port The port to connect to.
148 version
150 A comma separated list of versions to redirect. Behaves
151 the same way as versions_accepted in regard to wildcard
152 patterns.
153 [ban_time] A tag to define convenient keywords for temporary ban time
155 lengths.
156 name The name used to reference the ban time.
158 time The time length definition. The format is:
160 %d[%s[%d%s[...]]] where %s is s (seconds), m (minutes), h
161 (hours), D (days), M (months) or Y (years) and %d is a
162 number. If no time modifier is given minutes (m) are as‐
163 sumed. Example: time="1D12h30m" results in a ban time of
164 1 day, 12 hours and 30 minutes.
165 [proxy] A tag to tell the server to act as a proxy and forward the con‐
167 nected client's requests to the specified server. Accepts the same
168 keys as [redirect].
169 [user_handler] Configures the user handler. Available keys vary depend‐
171 ing on which user handler is set with the user_handler key. If no
172 [user_handler] section is present in the configuration the server will
173 run without any nick registration service. All additional tables that
174 are needed for the forum_user_handler to function can be found in ta‐
175 ble_definitions.sql in the Wesnoth source repository.
176 db_host
178 The hostname of the database server
179 db_name
181 The name of the database
182 db_user
184 The name of the user under which to log into the database
185 db_password
187 This user's password
188 db_users_table
190 The name of the table in which your phpbb forums saves
191 its user data. Most likely this will be <table-pre‐
192 fix>_users (e.g. phpbb3_users).
193 db_extra_table
195 The name of the table in which wesnothd will save its own
196 data about users.
197 db_game_info_table
199 The name of the table in which wesnothd will save its own
200 data about games.
201 db_game_player_info_table
203 The name of the table in which wesnothd will save its own
204 data about the players in a game.
205 db_game_modification_info_table
207 The name of the table in which wesnothd will save its own
208 data about the modifications used in a game.
209 db_user_group_table
211 The name of the table in which your phpbb forums saves
212 its user group data. Most likely this will be <table-pre‐
213 fix>_user_group (e.g. phpbb3_user_group).
214 mp_mod_group
216 The ID of the forum group to be considered as having mod‐
217 eration authority.
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220 Normal exit status is 0 when the server was properly shutdown. An exit
221 status of 2 indicates an error with the command line options.
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224 Written by David White <davidnwhite@verizon.net>. Edited by Nils Kneu‐
225 per <crazy-ivanovic@gmx.net>, ott <ott@gaon.net>, Soliton <soli‐
226 ton.de@gmail.com> and Thomas Baumhauer <thomas.baumhauer@gmail.com>.
227 This manual page was originally written by Cyril Bouthors
228 <cyril@bouthors.org>.
229 Visit the official homepage: https://www.wesnoth.org/
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232 Copyright © 2003-2021 David White <davidnwhite@verizon.net>
233 This is Free Software; this software is licensed under the GPL version
234 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. There is NO warranty;
235 not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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