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1 | $Id: README,v 1.6 2001/10/20 17:57:23 q Exp $ |
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| 3 | DESCRIPTION | |
| 4 | =========== | |
| 5 | ircdwatch is a daemon that regularly checks to see if ircd is running. | |
| 6 | if ircd should die or somehow stop running, ircdwatch will respawn the | |
| 7 | ircd daemon. if desirable, ircdwatch can be configured to check if | |
| 8 | the ircd configuration file is changed and send a SIGHUP to the ircd | |
| 9 | daemon which then causes the daemon to reload the configuration | |
| 10 | file. | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | the ircdwatch program itself is also used as sort of a remote | |
| 13 | control depending on what command line arguments you feed it. you | |
| 14 | can use it to start ircd and stop ircd and ircdwatch. | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | OPTIONS | |
| 17 | ======= | |
| 18 | if you invoke ircdwatch without any command line arguments it will | |
| 19 | either daemonize itself and become a daemon, or it will exit if it | |
| 20 | detects that an ircdwatch daemon is already running. | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | for using the ircdwatch program as a remote control the following | |
| 23 | command line options are available: | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | --kill | |
| 26 | stop both ircdwatch and ircd | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | --rest | |
| 29 | stop ircdwatch but leave ircd running | |
| 30 | ||
| 31 | --help | |
| 32 | list command line arguments | |
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| 34 | ||
| 35 | COMPILE TIME CONFIGURATION | |
| 36 | ========================== | |
| 37 | you configure ircdwatch by editing config.h in the directory where | |
| 38 | you build ircd. the configuration parameters available for | |
| 39 | ircdwatch are those starting with the prefix "IRCDWATCH_". please | |
| 40 | refer to the config.h file for more information on the parameter | |
| 41 | settings. most of the defaults should be okay if you want to use | |
| 42 | ircdwatch though. | |
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| 45 | ADMINISTRATIVIA | |
| 46 | =============== | |
| 47 | ircdwatch was written by Bjorn Borud <borud@guardian.no> and is | |
| 48 | Copyright (C) 1998 Bjorn Borud <borud@guardian.no> | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | the program is released under the GNU General Public License | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | the current maintainer can be reached at: <borud@guardian.no> | |
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| 54 | please report bugs to <ircd-users@irc.org> | |
| 55 | improvements are welcome. | |
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