TALER-MERCHANT-WIREWATCH(1)

📦 version 1.3.0, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

🦋 TALER-MERCHANT-WIREWATCH(1) 🦋

okay so this is a page from the GNU Taler manual gang — yes, that GNU Taler — and today's main character is taler-merchant-wirewatch. Buckle up bestie, we're reading a manpage together and honestly? it eats. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

taler-merchant-wirewatch — imports credit transactions from a merchant bank account into the merchant backend. it's optional, but like… so is skincare and look at us now. 🧖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

taler-merchant-wirewatch [-c FILENAME | --config=FILENAME]
[-h | --help] [-L LOGLEVEL | --loglevel=LOGLEVEL]
[-l FILENAME | --logfile=FILENAME] [-p | --persist]
[-T USEC | --timetravelUSEC] [-t | --test] [-v | --version]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does it do, you ask? taler-merchant-wirewatch is a command-line tool (a whole icon, tbh) that imports information about incoming bank transfers into a Taler merchant backend. literally its whole personality. 🎀

and why do we care? because this is what lets the merchant backend validate that the exchange paid the merchant correctly. vibe check: passed. no cap. 👑

Its options are as follows:

🫶 the options 🫶

  • -c FILENAME | --config=FILENAME — use the configuration and other resources for the merchant to operate from FILENAME. like handing your friend the aux cord, but for config files. 🎧
  • -h | --help — prints short help on options. the "just tell me what to do" button. 🙈
  • -L LOGLEVEL | --loglevel=LOGLEVEL — specifies the log level to use. accepted values are: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR. pick your chaos level wisely. 🔥
  • -l FILENAME | --logfile=FILENAME — send logging output to FILENAME. your thoughts, but written down. ✨
  • -p | --persist — run in persist mode. does not exit when the account configuration changes. useful when not running under systemd. it's giving "I'm not leaving, I live here now" energy. 🏠
  • -s SECTION | --section=SECTION — configuration section to use. default is taler-merchant-wirewatch. needed if different processes are used to watch multiple bank accounts (for the same instance or different instances). multitasking queen behavior. 👑
  • -T USEC | --timetravel=USEC — modify the system time by USEC microseconds. USEC may be prefixed with + or - (e.g. -T +300). this option is intended for debugging/testing only. literally time travel but make it a debug flag, iykyk. ⏳
  • -t | --test — run in test mode. only runs until the current list of bank transactions are all imported. short attention span mode, honestly relatable. 💀
  • -v | –version — print version information. the "who am I" option. 🪞

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

(the friend group 💜)

💀 BUGS 💀

report bugs by using https://bugs.taler.net or by sending electronic mail to <taler@gnu.org>. do NOT suffer in silence bestie, tell the maintainers. 😭

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

GNU Taler contributors — legends, all of them. 👑

2014-2025 Taler Systems SA (GPLv3+ or GFDL 1.3+)

ok that's the whole page, nothing skipped, nothing invented, every flag accounted for. slay. 💅

💖✨ and that's the tea: version 1.0, dated Dec 22, 2025, brought to you by the GNU Taler girlies. bye bestie, go watch some wires! 🦋🌸

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