WEBCAMD(1)

📦 version 0.7.6, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 WEBCAMD 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about webcamd — that's the manual page 1 situation, the little daemon that's out here living its life in section 1 of your man pages. yes it's giving "why is this even a thing" and yes I am obsessed. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

webcamd — literally just: take a image from your webcam. that's it. that's the whole job. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

webcamd [ start | stop | refresh ]

three little words and a dream, bestie 🦋

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

so this manual page documents briefly the webcamd daemon. brief. succinct. a little snack of documentation. 😌

and like, real talk — this manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. not one. nothing. so Debian said "fine, we'll do it ourselves" and honestly? iconic behaviour. 👑

webcamd is a program that take images from your webcam and put it on a ftp server on a local (web) directory. no cap. webcam → image → ftp server → local (web) directory. that's the whole pipeline. that's the vibe. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • start — Start the daemon. wake it up, let it cook 🔥
  • stop — Stop the daemon. okay girl, rest now 💀
  • refresh — Take a shot ! 📸 capital-S Shot, exclamation point and all, because that's how the original said it and I respect the original
lowkey this is the entire options list. three commands. no flags. no --help. no --version. just vibes and a webcam. 🍓

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

so yeah — shoutout Julien, shoutout Debian, shoutout the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.1-or-later, no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, no Back-Cover Texts. licensing slay 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one's dated 2002 april 21 and it's still sitting there in the WEBCAMD(1) section waiting for you. main character energy from a daemon that takes webcam pics and drops them on ftp. we love to see it. periodt 🧚✨

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