rld 1.0 documentation

Arguments

rld takes the following commandline arguments:

1. -a, --address ADDR

Listen for connections on address ADDR. rld will bind to all available addresses by default.

2. -d, --description DESC

Sets server.description to DESC. The description is used to identify this rld to tracker servers.

3. -h, --help

Shows help message and exits.

4. -n, --name NAME

Sets server.name to NAME. The server name is used to identify this rld to tracker servers.

5. -p, --port PORT

Listen for connections on port PORT (0 ... 65535). The default port is 5500.

6. -v, --version

Displays version information and exits.

7. --accountsfile FILE

Sets server.accountsfile. See also accounts.

8. --agreementfile FILE

Sets server.agreementfile. See also agreement.

9. --bantablefile FILE

Sets server.bantablefile. See also bantable.

10. --crypt PWD

Encrypt PWD and prints it to the output, then exits. This is a strange option that is here to help create passwords for use in the accounts file. You don't need to use this, most likely. Use the adduser console command instead.

11. --debug

Output lots of debugging information. Also handy if you need a HL packet filter. This also throttles transfers to about 10K / s.

12. --flatnewsfile FILE

Sets server.flatnewsfile. See also flatnews.

13. --homedir DIR

Sets server.homedir.

14. --logfile FILE

Use FILE as logfile (default: rootdir/rld.log).

15. --maxdl NUM

Sets server.maxdl. If a new download request causes this maximum to be exceeded it may flow over into the queue.

16. --maxdlperuser NUM

Sets server.maxdlperuser.

17. --maxdlqueue NUM

Sets server.maxdlqueue.

18. --maxul NUM

Sets server.maxul. If a new upload request causes this maximum to be exceeded it may flow over into the queue.

19. --maxulperuser NUM

Sets server.maxulperuser.

20. --maxulqueue NUM

Sets server.maxulqueue.

21. --maxusers NUM

Sets server.maxusers (1 ... 31999).

22. --rootdir DIR

Sets server.rootdir.

23. --trackertablefile FILE

Sets server.trackertablefile. See also trackertable.

24. --trashdir DIR

Sets server.trashdir. See also trash.

25 october 2001