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NAME

       pioneers-metaserver - metaserver for Pioneers


SYNOPSIS

       pioneers-metaserver [options]


DESCRIPTION

       Pioneers is an implementation of the popular, award-winning "Settlers
       of Catan" board game.  It uses a client/server model for networked
       play. This program provides a piece of network infrastructure that
       helps match pioneers clients to pioneers servers. Casual players of
       pioneers probably do not need to run this program.


OPTIONS

       -?, --help
              Print a short help text and exit.

       -d, --daemon
              Run in daemon mode.

       -P, --pidfile pidfile
              Write the pid to pidfile (implies -d)

       -r, --redirect location
              Redirect to another metaserver running at location.

       -s, --servername hostname
              Use hostname as hostname when creating servers.

       -p, --port-range from-to
              Use ports in the range from-to (inclusive) to start servers.
              When this range is not specified, the metaserver will not be
              able to create new games.

       --debug
              Enable debug messages.

       --syslog-debug
              Duplicate the messages of the syslog to the console.

       --version
              Show version information.


ENVIRONMENT

       The default settings of the metaserver can be influenced with the
       following three environment variables:

       PIONEERS_METASERVER
              The hostname the metaserver will use when creating new games.
              This should be a hostname that can be resolved by all clients
              that will connect.

       PIONEERS_SERVER_CONSOLE
              The path (including the filename) to pioneers-server-console.
              If it contains only a filename and no path or if it is not set,
              the PATH variable in the environment is used to locate the
              program.

       PIONEERS_DIR
              The path to the game definition files.  If it is not set, the
              default installation path will be used.


FILES

       /usr/share/games/pioneers/*.game
              Game definitions


SIGNALS

       SIGINT
              Shutdown the metaserver gracefully (can also be used to check
              for memory leaks)


AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debian.org>, and
       updated by Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> and Bas Wijnen
       <shevek@fmf.nl>.  Pioneers was written by Dave Cole <dave@dccs.com.au>,
       Andy Heroff <aheroff@mediaone.net>, and Roman Hodek <roman@hodek.net>,
       with contributions from many other developers on the Internet; see the
       AUTHORS file in the pioneers distribution or the help->about dialog in
       one of the graphical programs for a complete list of contributing
       authors.


SEE ALSO

       pioneers(6), pioneers-server-gtk(6), pioneers-server-console(6)

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