NAME

pioneers-metaserver - metaserver for Pioneers

SYNOPSIS

pioneers-metaserver [options]

DESCRIPTION

Pioneers is an implementation of the popular, award-winning "Settlers of Catan" board game. It uses a client/server model for networked play. This program provides a piece of network infrastructure that helps match pioneers clients to pioneers servers. Casual players of pioneers probably do not need to run this program.

OPTIONS

-?, --help: Print a short help text and exit.
-d, --daemon: Run in daemon mode.
-P, --pidfile pidfile: Write the pid to pidfile (implies -d)
-r, --redirect location: Redirect to another metaserver running at location.
-s, --servername hostname: Use hostname as hostname when creating servers.
-p, --port-range from-to: Use ports in the range from-to (inclusive) to start servers. When this range is not specified, the metaserver will not be able to create new games.
--debug: Enable debug messages.
--syslog-debug: Duplicate the messages of the syslog to the console.
--version: Show version information.

ENVIRONMENT

The default settings of the metaserver can be influenced with the following three environment variables:

PIONEERS_METASERVER: The hostname the metaserver will use when creating new games. This should be a hostname that can be resolved by all clients that will connect.
PIONEERS_SERVER_CONSOLE: The path (including the filename) to pioneers-server-console. If it contains only a filename and no path or if it is not set, the PATH variable in the environment is used to locate the program.
PIONEERS_DIR: The path to the game definition files. If it is not set, the default installation path will be used.

FILES

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

Game definitions

SIGNALS

SIGINT

Shutdown the metaserver gracefully (can also be used to check for memory leaks)

AUTHOR

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