NAME

       sbnc - an modular IRC proxy.

SYNOPSIS

       sbnc

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the sbnc commandline parameters.  sbnc is an modular IRC proxy with
       extension support.  It gives you an easy control over about more than 2000 users.  You are  able  to  use
       OpenSSL  encrypted  connections  also  like  connections  about  the  IPv6 protocol.  sbnc comes with two
       modules. The bnctcl extension, which gives your IRC proxy  a  powerful  TCL  scripting  support  and  the
       bncmysql extension, which stores all your users depend data in an MySQL table.

BINARY PARAMETERS

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

       --config
              Location of the configuration directory.

       --data Location of the data directory (defaults to the config directory).

       --foreground
              Run in the foreground instead of a daemon.

       --help Displays the help and exits.

       --log  Location  of  the  log  directory  (defaults  to  the  data  directory  if  given, else the config
              directory).

       --lpc  Don't start child processes.

       --pid  Location of the PID file (defaults to <data dir>/sbnc.pid).

FILES AND DIRECTORIES

       /etc/sbnc/
              Configuration files for sbnc. The most important configuration files are:
              /etc/sbnc/sbnc.conf
              /etc/sbnc/sbnc.ipc
              /etc/sbnc/sbnc.tcl

       /etc/default/sbnc Default file of shroudBNC. You can decide in this file, if shroudBNC  should  start  on
       boot time.

       /etc/logrotate.d/sbnc
              Configuration for log rotating.

       /etc/init.d/sbnc
              Start and stop script of shroudBNC.

       /usr/lib/sbnc/
              Path  for  all  libraries  of shroudBNC. Also all Tcl scripts from the sbnc-tcl extension could be
              found in the scripts subfolder.

       /etc/sbnc/users/
              Path where all user depend data will be saved.

       /var/log/sbnc/
              Path where the logfiles of sbnc will be saved.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by  Patrick  Matthäi  <patrick.matthaei@web.de>  for  sbnc.   Permission  is
       granted  to  copy,  distribute  and/or  modify  this  document  under the terms of the GNU General Public
       License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

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