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DOOMSDAY-SERVER(6)          DragonFly Games Manual          DOOMSDAY-SERVER(6)


NAME

     doomsday-server - Doomsday Engine multiplayer daemon


SYNOPSIS

     doomsday-server [-stdout] [-port tcp-port] [-iwad dir] [-game mode] [-v]
     [-file file ...]

     Note that the command line is not interpreted according to GNU
     conventions. Everything following -- is ignored.  @ can be used to
     specify a response file whose contents are added to the command line.


OPTIONS

     -stdout   Prints all log entries to the standard output. If this option
               is not used, nothing is printed so that the server can be run
               as a background process.

     -port     TCP port that the server listens to for incoming connections.

     -iwad     Specifies a directory where to look for IWAD files. Doomsday
               will search for IWADs from all known games and automatically
               load them when needed. Note that you can also use the
               DOOMWADDIR environment variable or the paths configuration file
               to specify the location of the IWAD files.

     -game     Sets the game to load after startup. See doomsday(6) for a list
               of available games. For example:

                     -game doom1-ultimate

               If -game is not specified and the server is unable to choose a
               game automatically, the server will quit.

     -v        Print verbose log messages (also -verbose). Specify more than
               once for extra verbosity.

     -file     Specify one or more resource files (WAD, LMP, PK3) to load at
               startup. More files can be loaded at runtime with the load
               command.

     In addition to these, doomsday-server supports many of the command line
     options of doomsday(6).


OPERATING A SERVER

     Doomsday servers are, by default, silent daemon processes intended to be
     run in the background. You need to use the Doomsday Shell to monitor
     their status and control them.


SEE ALSO

     doomsday(6), doomsday-shell-text(6)


AUTHOR

     This documentation has been written by Jaakko Keranen
     <jaakko.keranen@iki.fi> and Daniel Swanson <danij@dengine.net>.

DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT       January 1, 2016      DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT

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