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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)
deny_unregistered_login
Whether to prevent users who are not registered with the user_handler being used from logging in.
(default: false)
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)
tls_enabled
Enable use of TLS. If true, requires 3 following options to be set too.
tls_fullchain
TLS full certificate chain in .pem format
tls_private_key
private key for TLS in .pem format
tls_dh TLS DH parameters, as .pem file. Generate with openssl dhparam -out filename.pem 4096
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.
id The ID of the server when using the database functionality to store game information. Generally is
the major.minor version of accepted clients, such as 1.16 or 1.17.
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 forum 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 forum saves its user group data. Most likely this
will be <table-prefix>_user_group (e.g. phpbb3_user_group).
db_connection_history_table
The name of the table in which to store login/logout times. Also used for matching IPs to
users and vice versa.
db_topics_table
The name of the table in which your phpbb forum saves its topic (thread) information. Most
likely this will be <table-prefix>_topics (e.g. phpbb3_topics).
db_banlist_table
The name of the table in which your phpbb forum saves its user bans data. Most likely this
will be <table-prefix>_banlist (e.g. phpbb3_banlist).
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 © 2003-2024 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.
SEE ALSO
wesnoth(6)