man iauth (8): The Internet Relay Chat Authentication Program

SYNOPSIS

iauth: [ -v | -c configfile ]

DESCRIPTION

iauth is a slave process used by the ircd program to perform the authentication of incoming TCP connections. The ircd program starts iauth upon startup.

iauth will close and reopen the log file whenever it receives a user signal 2, SIGUSR2. This is useful to rotate the log file.

OPTIONS

-c filename: When this flag is given, the program will read the configuration file specify and validate it. This is useful to check for errors in the setup.
-v: This option dumps information about the version.

EXAMPLE

millennium% iauth -c iauth.conf
iauth 2.10
Reading "iauth.conf"
Module(s) loaded:
        rfc931

COPYRIGHT

For full COPYRIGHT see LICENSE file with IRC package.

FILES

"iauth.conf"

BUGS

None... ;-) if somebody finds one, please send mail to [email protected]

AUTHOR

Christophe Kalt.