oscam(1)

📦 version 1.20_svn20201119, in alpine 3.24

🎀 oscam(1) — your fave SC server, but make it group chat 🎀

Okay so this is the oscam(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and we're about to get into it. No cap. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

OSCam — SC server 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTIONS ✨

Bestie, the OSCam software is an open source multi-protocol/multi-platform SC server. That's the whole identity. Please check the compile options for included features in the binary — like, the binary tells you what's actually in there, okay? 🎀

OSCam supports the following protocols, and yes we're listing every single one:

  • newcamd with cascading/remote server ECM support
  • camd 3.3x TCP
  • camd camd 3.5x / 3.57x UDP with cascading/remote server ECM support, ECM and EMM support with size > 256 bytes
  • camd 3.78x TCP with cascading/remote server ECM support, ECM and EMM support with size > 256 bytes
  • CCcam with cascading/remote server ECM support, ECM and EMM support with size > 256 bytes
  • DVB API with multi tuner and PIP support
  • gbox with cascading/remote server ECM support
  • serial (HSIC, SSSP, BOMBA, DSR 9500)
  • radegast

OSCam works on the following platforms:

  • Linux (Tuxbox, ARM, MIPS, MIPSel, SH-4, PowerPC, ...)
  • Windows (based on cygwin1.dll)
  • Mac OS X

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -a, --crash-dump — write oscam.crash on segfault (needs installed GDB and OSCam compiled with debug infos -ggdb)
  • -b, --daemon — starts in background, writing oscam.version with starttime and version info in temporary directory
  • -B, --pidfile <filename> — set PID file, overrides pidfile of oscam.conf, default:none
  • -c, --config-dir <directory> — read configuration from <directory>, default:see CS_CONFDIR in globals.h, while starting OSCam prints warnings on invalid keywords, comment lines start with # character.

Autodiscover of the following directories will be done:

  • /etc/tuxbox/config
  • /etc/tuxbox/config/oscam
  • /config/oscam
  • /usr/keys
  • /var/etc
  • /var/etc/oscam
  • /var/keys
  • /var/oscam
  • /var/tuxbox/config
  • -d, --debug <level> — debug level mask:
    0 = no debugging (default)
    2 = ATR parsing info, ECM dumps, CW dumps
    4 = traffic from/to the reader
    8 = traffic from/to the clients
   16 = traffic to the reader-device on IFD layer
   32 = traffic to the reader-device on I/O layer
   64 = EMM logging
  128 = DVBAPI logging
  256 = load balancing logging
  512 = cache exchange logging
 1024 = client ECM logging
 2048 = CSP logging
 4096 = CWC logging
65535 = debug all
  • -g, --gcollect <mode> — garbage collector debug mode, default:none:
1 = immediate free
2 = check for double frees
  • -h, --help — usage
  • -I, --syslog-ident <ident> — set syslog ident, default:oscam
  • -p, --pending-ecm <number> — maximum number of pending ECM packets, default:32, maximum:255
  • -r, --restart <level> — restart level:
0 = disabled, restart request sets exit status to 99
1 = restart activated, web interface can restart oscam (default)
2 = like 1, but also restart on segmentation faults
  • -S, --show-sensitive — do not filter sensitive info (card serial numbers) in the logs
  • -s, --capture-segfaults — capture segmentation faults
  • -t, --temp-dir <directory> — use <directory> for temporary data, default:temporary directory of OS
  • -u, --utf8 — enable output of web interface in UTF-8 charset
  • -V, --build-info — show OSCam version info
  • -w, --wait <seconds> — time waiting for system time to be set correctly

🦋 SIGNALS 🦋

  • SIGHUP — reinit user db, readers, TIERs, services, clients and anti-cascading, for newcamd connections: after reloading the ident, please restart newcamd client
  • SIGUSR1 — shift debug level to next level (see debug level mask above)
  • SIGUSR2 — get reader SC info

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

list_smargo(1), oscam.ac(5), oscam.cacheex(5), oscam.cert(5), oscam.conf(5), oscam.dvbapi(5), oscam.fakecws(5), oscam.guess(5), oscam.ird(5), oscam.provid(5), oscam.ratelimit(5), oscam.server(5), oscam.services(5), oscam.srvid(5), oscam.srvid2(5), oscam.tiers(5), oscam.user(5), oscam.whitelist(5)

That's the whole page, bestie — oscam(1) from the General Commands Manual. The footer only gives us oscam(1) with no version/date to copy, so here's your cute sign-off instead: stay iconic, check those compile options, and slay the SC server game. 💖✨🎀

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