NAME

       inspircd - A modular C++ IRC Daemon

SYNOPSIS

       inspircd  [--version]   [--config <config>]  [--runasroot]  [--nofork]  [--nolog]  [--logfile <filename>]
       [--debug]  [--testsuite]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the inspircd command.

       inspircd is a modular C++ IRC Daemon (ircd) for Linux, BSD and  Windows  systems  created  to  provide  a
       stable,  modern,  lightweight  irc  server  from  scratch  and  provide  a  vast  number of features in a
       modularised form using an advanced module API. By keeping the functionality of the main core to a minimum
       we hope to increase the stability and speed of our project and make it customisable to the needs of  many
       users.  InspIRCd  is  designed  primarily  to  be  a  custom  irc  server  for  the chatspike irc network
       (irc.chatspike.net) but we are releasing it into the public domain under GPL  so  that  you  may  benefit
       yourself  from  our  work.  The  project is written from scratch, avoiding the inherent instability under
       large loads which can be seen in many other irc server distributions which have the same featureset.

       The inspircd command starts the ircd server, using /etc/inspircd/inspircd.conf as its configuration  file
       unless used with --config.

OPTIONS

       These  programs  follow  the  usual  GNU  command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes
       (`-').  A summary of options is included below.  For the complete documentation for inspircd, please  see
       http://inspircd.org/wiki/Main_Page.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --version
              Show the version and revision ID

       --config <config>
              Change the file name used for the main configuration file

       --runasroot
              Allow  InspIRCd  to  run  as root, after a short pause and a nag banner to prevent this being done
              accidentally (NOT RECOMMENDED OR SUPPORTED!)

       --nofork
              Do not fork to the background on startup, useful for debugging modules

       --nolog
              Do not write to the logfile, used mostly in conjunction with --debug

       --logfile <filename>
              Change the logfile used

       --debug
              Force debug logging, overriding the config  setting.  Usually  used  with  --nolog  by  the  debug
              launcher

       --testsuite
              Test suite for debugging purpose

SEE ALSO

       InspIRCd   is   fully   documented   by   the   inspircd   documentation   team,  which  is  viewable  at
       http://wiki.inspircd.org/.

AUTHOR

       InspIRCd was written by Craig Edwards (Brain), Craig McLure (FrostyCoolSlug), Robin Burchell (w00t),  and
       more (see  http://www.inspircd.org/wiki/Credits).

       This  manual  page  was  written by Darren Blaber <dmbtech@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be
       used by others).

                                                  June 11, 2007                                      INSPIRCD(1)