-.\" $NetBSD: huntd.6,v 1.8 2005/09/15 02:10:37 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: huntd.6,v 1.12 2014/03/30 01:44:37 dholland Exp $
.\"
.\" huntd
.\"
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
.\" OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd April 4, 2001
+.Dd March 29, 2014
.Dt HUNTD 6
+.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm huntd
.Nd hunt daemon, back-end for hunt game
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl s
-.Op Fl p Ar port
+.Op Fl p Ar address
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
controls the multi-player
.Xr hunt 6
game.
-When it starts up, it tries to notify all members of the
-.Em hunt-players
-mailing list (see
-.Xr sendmail 8 )
-by faking a
-.Xr talk 1
-request from user
-.Dq Hunt Game .
.Pp
The
.Fl s
.Pp
The
.Fl p
-option changes the UDP port number used to rendezvous with the player
-process and thus allows for private games of hunt.
-This option turns off the notification of players on the
-.Em hunt-players
-mailing list.
+option can be either a pathname, in which case a local socket by that
+name is used for the game, or a number, in which case it selects an
+alternate port number for the internet socket used for the game.
+This allows for private games of hunt.
.Ss INETD
To run
.Nm
.Nm
on the local machine and tries to rendezvous with it.
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr talk 1 ,
-.Xr hunt 6 ,
-.Xr sendmail 8
+.Xr sendmail 1 ,
+.Xr hunt 6
.Sh AUTHORS
Conrad Huang, Ken Arnold, and Greg Couch;
.br