alevtd(1)

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version 3.107 · 2 versions
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

okay so alevtd is a webserver for videotext pages 📺✨ bestie, it's literally the manual name AND the whole vibe 💅

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

alevtd [ options ]

ngl that's the whole thing 🫶 toss your options after it and you're set

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so alevtd is an http daemon that serves videotext pages as HTML 💜 first you gotta tune in to some station with a utility like v4lctl or some TV application 📡 then start alevtd and point your browser to http://localhost:5654/ 🦋

Pages can be requested in two flavors 🍓 either HTML, like http://localhost:5654/<page>/ or http://localhost:5654/<page>/<subpage>.html, or plain ASCII text, like http://localhost:5654/<page>/<subpage>.txt 🌈 and if your page doesn't have subpages, just use subpage 00 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h — pops up a short help text plus the default values for every option 🆘
  • -v dev — sets the vbi device (default: /dev/vbi0) 📼
  • -d — turns on debug output 🔍
  • -s — writes a start/stop notice and serious errors to the syslog 📝 ask for it twice and you get a verbose log, with extra events like dropped connections 👀
  • -t sec — sets the network timeout to sec seconds ⏰
  • -c n — sets the number of allowed parallel connections to n 🔗 heads up, this is a per-thread limit 🧵
  • -p port — listens on port for incoming connections (default 5654) 🔌
  • -n hostname — sets the hostname the server should use, and it's required for redirects 🔀
  • -i ip — binds to IP-address ip 📍
  • -l log — logs all requests to the logfile log in common log format 🗂️ using "-" as the filename makes alevtd print the access log to stdout, which is only useful together with the -F switch (see below) 🖥️
  • -L log — same energy as -l, but with an extra flush on every line 💧 super handy if you want to monitor the logfile with tail -f 👁️
  • -u user — sets uid to user, after binding to the tcp port 🙈
👑 -u is allowed for root only, so if you're not root bestie, this one is NOT it 💀
  • -g group — sets gid to group, after binding to the tcp port 🫧
👑 same deal here, -g is allowed for root only 💀
  • -F — don't run as daemon 🧍‍♀️ alevtd will NOT fork into the background or detach from your terminal, and errors get reported to stderr 📣
  • -r — polls the tv frequency, and if a frequency change is detected it clears the vtx page cache 🧹

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

alevt(1), xawtv(1), v4lctl(1) 💖 go check those out, they're giving main character energy 👑

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Written by Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de> ✨ the legend himself 🧙

Copyright (C) 2000 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de> 🌸

ngl the legal stuff is lowkey important, so here's the tea 🍵 this program is free software 🌈 you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version 💜

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY 😭 not even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Check the GNU General Public License for more details 📖

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If you didn't, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 💌

💜 okay bestie that's the whole tea ☕ alevtd(1) by Gerd Knorr, (c) 2000, and it's still iconic 👑🦋 periodt 💅✨

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