README
1$Id: README,v 1.6 2001/10/20 17:57:23 q Exp $
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3DESCRIPTION
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
16OPTIONS
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
33
34
35COMPILE 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.
43
44
45ADMINISTRATIVIA
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>
53
54 please report bugs to <ircd-users@irc.org>
55 improvements are welcome.
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