pioneers-meta-server(6) meta game server for Pioneers

SYNOPSIS

pioneers-meta-server [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 meta-server 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. It is advised not to include port 5557 in the range. (See BUGS below.) When this range is not specified, the meta-server 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 meta-server can be influenced with the following three environment variables:
PIONEERS_META_SERVER
The hostname the meta-server 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 to pioneers-server-console. If it is not set, the default installation path will be used.
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

BUGS

Do not include port 5557 in the --port-range argument because the meta-server uses this port.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Jeff Breidenbach <[email protected]>, and updated by Roland Clobus <[email protected]> and Bas Wijnen <[email protected]>. Pioneers was written by Dave Cole <[email protected]>, Andy Heroff <[email protected]>, and Roman Hodek <[email protected]>, 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.