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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