Ubuntu Manpage: wesnothd - Battle for Wesnoth multiplayer network daemon

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NAME

       wesnothd - Battle for Wesnoth multiplayer network daemon

SYNOPSIS

       wesnothd [-dv] [-c path] [-p port] [-t number] [-T number]
       wesnothd -V

DESCRIPTION

       Manages        Battle        for        Wesnoth        multiplayer        games.       See
       https://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/ServerAdministration on what commands the server accepts  via
       the wesnoth client (/query ...) or the fifo.

OPTIONS

       -c path, --config path
              tells  wesnothd where to find the config file to use. See the section SERVER CONFIG
              below for the syntax. You can reload the config with sending SIGHUP to  the  server
              process.

       -d, --daemon
              runs wesnothd as a daemon.

       -h, --help
              tells you what the command line options do.

       --log-level=domain1,domain2,...
              sets  the  severity  level  of  the  log domains.  all can be used to match any log
              domain. Available levels: error, warning, info, debug.  By default the error  level
              is used and the info level for the server domain.

       -p port, --port port
              binds the server to the specified port. If no port is specified, port 15000 will be
              used.

       -t number, --threads number
              sets the maximum number of waiting worker threads for network I/O  to  n  (default:
              5, max: 30).

       -T number, --max-threads number
              sets  the maximum number of worker threads that will be created.  If set to 0 there
              will be no limit (default: 0).

       -V, --version
              shows version number and exits.

       -v, --verbose
              turns debug logging on.

SERVER CONFIG

The general syntax is:
[tag]

key="value"

key="value,value,..."

[/tag]

Global keys:
allow_remote_shutdown
If set to no (default), shut_down and restart requests are ignored unless they come
from the fifo. Set it to yes to allow remote shutdown via a /query by an
administrator.

ban_save_file
Full or relative path to a (gzip compressed) file that the server can read and
write. Bans will be saved to this file and read again on server start.

compress_stored_rooms
Determines whether the rooms file should be read and written to in compressed form.
Defaults to yes.

connections_allowed
The number of allowed connections from the same IP. 0 means infinite. (default: 5)

disallow_names
Names/nicks that are not accepted by the server. * and ? from wildcard patterns are
supported. See glob(7) for more details. Default values (used if nothing is
specified) are: *admin*,*admln*,*server*,ai,ai?,computer,human,network,player.

fifo_path
The path to the fifo you can echo server commands into (same as /query ... from
wesnoth). If not specified defaults to the compile-time path (default:
/var/run/wesnothd/socket).

max_messages
The number of allowed messages in messages_time_period. (default: 4)

messages_time_period
The time period (in seconds) message flooding is detected in. (default: 10 seconds)

motd The message of the day.

new_room_policy
Determines who can create new rooms on the server. Available values are everyone,
registered, admin and nobody, and give the permission respectively to everyone,
registered users, admin users or disables new room creation. Default value is
everyone.

passwd The password used to gain admin privileges (via /query admin password).

replay_save_path
The directory where the server stores game replays. (Don't forget the trailing /!)
Defaults to `' which means the directory wesnothd was started in.

restart_command
The command that the server uses to start a new server process via the restart
command. (Can only be issued via the fifo. See the allow_remote_shutdown setting.)

room_save_file
Path to a file where the room info should be stored. This file is read on server
startup and written to later. If empty or not set, rooms are not loaded and not
saved.

save_replays
Defines whether the server will automatically save replays of games. (default:
false)

versions_accepted
A comma separated list of version strings to be accepted by the server. * and ?
from wildcard patterns are supported. (defaults to the corresponding wesnoth
version)
Example: versions_accepted="*" accepts any version string.

deny_unregistered_login
Whether to prevent users who are not registered with the user_handler being used
from logging in. (default: false)

Global tags:
[redirect] A tag to specify a server to redirect certain client versions to. Is not used
if versions_accepted is not set.

host The address of the server to redirect to.

port The port to connect to.

version
A comma separated list of versions to redirect. Behaves the same way as
versions_accepted in regard to wildcard patterns.

[ban_time] A tag to define convenient keywords for temporary ban time lengths.

name The name used to reference the ban time.

time The time length definition. The format is: %d[%s[%d%s[...]]] where %s is s
(seconds), m (minutes), h (hours), D (days), M (months) or Y (years) and %d
is a number. If no time modifier is given minutes (m) are assumed.
Example: time="1D12h30m" results in a ban time of 1 day, 12 hours and 30
minutes.

[proxy] A tag to tell the server to act as a proxy and forward the connected client's
requests to the specified server. Accepts the same keys as [redirect].

[user_handler] Configures the user handler. If no [user_handler] section is present in the
configuration the server will run without any nick registration service. All additional
tables that are needed for the forum_user_handler to function can be found in
table_definitions.sql in the Wesnoth source repository. Requires mysql support enabled.
For cmake this is ENABLE_MYSQL and for scons this is forum_user_handler.

db_host
The hostname of the database server

db_name
The name of the database

db_user
The name of the user under which to log into the database

db_password
This user's password

db_users_table
The name of the table in which your phpbb forums saves its user data. Most
likely this will be <table-prefix>_users (e.g. phpbb3_users).

db_extra_table
The name of the table in which wesnothd will save its own data about users.

db_game_info_table
The name of the table in which wesnothd will save its own data about games.

db_game_player_info_table
The name of the table in which wesnothd will save its own data about the
players in a game.

db_game_modification_info_table
The name of the table in which wesnothd will save its own data about the
modifications used in a game.

db_user_group_table
The name of the table in which your phpbb forums saves its user group data.
Most likely this will be <table-prefix>_user_group (e.g.
phpbb3_user_group).

mp_mod_group
The ID of the forum group to be considered as having moderation authority.

EXIT STATUS

       Normal  exit  status  is  0  when  the  server  was properly shutdown. An exit status of 2
       indicates an error with the command line options.

AUTHOR

       Written  by  David  White  <davidnwhite@verizon.net>.   Edited  by  Nils  Kneuper  <crazy-
       ivanovic@gmx.net>, ott <ott@gaon.net>, Soliton <soliton.de@gmail.com> and Thomas Baumhauer
       <thomas.baumhauer@gmail.com>.  This manual page was originally written by  Cyril  Bouthors
       <cyril@bouthors.org>.
       Visit the official homepage: https://www.wesnoth.org/

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2003-2022 David White <davidnwhite@verizon.net>
       This  is Free Software; this software is licensed under the GPL version 2, as published by
       the Free Software Foundation.  There is NO  warranty;  not  even  for  MERCHANTABILITY  or
       FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.