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.

SEE ALSO

       pioneers(6), pioneers-server-gtk(6), pioneers-server-console(6)