NAME

       rbot - IRC bot written in ruby

SYNOPSIS

       rbot [{[-d] | [--debug]} {[-h] | [--help]} {[-v] | [--version]} {[-l LEVEL] | [--loglevel LEVEL]} {[-b] |
            [--background]} {[-p PIDFILE] | [--pidfile PIDFILE]}] [confdir]

DESCRIPTION

       rbot starts the Rbot (ruby IRC bot).

OPTIONS

       This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').
       A summary of options is included below.

       -d, --debug
           Display debug information (very verbose).

       -h, --help
           Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
           Display version information.

       -l LEVEL, --loglevel LEVEL
           Sets the minimum log level verbosity. Possible values for the loglevel are 0 (DEBUG), 1 (INFO), 2
           (WARN), 3 (ERROR), 4 (FATAL). The default loglevel is 1 (INFO messages). The logfile is located at
           BOTDIR/BOTNAME.log and doesn't contain IRC logs (which are located at BOTDIR/logs/*), but only rbot
           diagnostic messages.

       -b, --background
           Background (daemonize) the bot.

       -p PIDFILE, --pidfile PIDFILE
           Write the bot pid to PIDFILE. The default pidfile is BOTDIR/rbot.pid.

       BOTDIR
           Path to the directory where are stored the bot's configuration files. The default config directory is
           ~/.rbot.

VERSION

       This manual page was written by Marc Dequènes (Duck) <Duck@DuckCorp.org> for the Debian(TM) system (but
       may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
       terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software
       Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

AUTHORS

       Marc Dequènes <Duck@DuckCorp.org>
           Debian(TM) package maintainer

       Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
           rbot maintainer

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2004-2009 Marc Dequènes (Duck)
       Copyright © 2010 Giuseppe Bilotta

rbot 0.9.15                                         20100701                                             RBOT(1)