pioneers-meta-server6

Usage

Overview

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. It is advised not to include port 5557 in the range. (See BUGS below.) 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_META_SERVER

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 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

Signals

USR1