hunt/huntd/huntd.6

   1 .\"     $NetBSD: huntd.6,v 1.3 1998/01/09 08:03:42 perry Exp $
   2 .\"
   3 .\"  Hunt
   4 .\"  Copyright (c) 1985 Conrad C. Huang, Gregory S. Couch, Kenneth C.R.C. Arnold
   5 .\"  San Francisco, California
   6 .\"
   7 .\"  Copyright (c) 1985 Regents of the University of California.
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  11 .TH HUNTD 6 "21 August 1986"
  12 .UC 4
  13 .SH NAME
  14 huntd \- hunt daemon, back-end for hunt game
  15 .SH SYNOPSIS
  16 \fB/usr/games/huntd\fP [ \fB\-s\fP ] [ \fB\-p\fP port ]
  17 .SH DESCRIPTION
  18 .PP
  19 .I huntd
  20 controls the multi-player
  21 .IR hunt (6)
  22 game.
  23 When it starts up, it tries to notify all members of the
  24 .I hunt-players
  25 mailing list (see
  26 .IR sendmail (8))
  27 by faking a
  28 .IR talk (1)
  29 request from user ``Hunt Game''.
  30 .PP
  31 The
  32 .B \-s
  33 option is for running
  34 .I huntd
  35 forever (server mode).
  36 This is similar to running it under the control of
  37 .I inetd
  38 (see below),
  39 but it consumes a process table entry when no one is playing.
  40 .PP
  41 The
  42 .B \-p
  43 option changes the udp port number used to rendezvous with the player
  44 process and thus allows for private games of hunt.
  45 This option turns off the notification of players on the
  46 .I hunt-players
  47 mailing list.
  48 .SH INETD
  49 .PP
  50 To run
  51 .I huntd
  52 from
  53 .IR inetd ,
  54 you'll need to put the
  55 .I hunt
  56 service in
  57 .BR /etc/services :
  58 .IP
  59 hunt 26740/udp          # multi-player/multi-host mazewars
  60 .LP
  61 and add a line in
  62 .BR /etc/inetd.conf :
  63 .IP
  64 hunt dgram udp wait nobody /usr/games/huntd HUNT
  65 .LP
  66 except for Suns which use
  67 .BR /etc/servers :
  68 .IP
  69 hunt udp /usr/games/huntd
  70 .LP
  71 Do not use any of the command line options \(em if you want
  72 .I inetd
  73 to start up
  74 .I huntd
  75 on a private port, change the port listed in
  76 .BR /etc/services .
  77 .SH "NETWORK RENDEZVOUS"
  78 When
  79 .IR hunt (6)
  80 starts up, it broadcasts on the local area net
  81 (using the broadcast address for each interface) to find a
  82 .I hunt
  83 game in progress.
  84 If a
  85 .I huntd
  86 hears the request, it sends back the port number for the
  87 .I hunt
  88 process to connect to.
  89 Otherwise, the
  90 .I hunt
  91 process starts up a
  92 .I huntd
  93 on the local machine and trys to rendezvous with it.
  94 .SH "SEE ALSO"
  95 hunt(6), talk(1), sendmail(8)
  96 .SH AUTHORS
  97 Conrad Huang, Ken Arnold, and Greg Couch;
  98 .br
  99 University of California, San Francisco, Computer Graphics Lab
 100 .\"SH BUGS