FRISKSERVER(6x)

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💖 FRISKSERVER 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about friskserver from section 6x of the manual — the little server that runs your Risk game and holds the whole thing down. she's the host, the backbone, the main character of your board-game LAN party 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

friskserver — network risk board-game server 🦋

like, the server for a game of risk, but over the network. yes, that risk. the one that ends friendships.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

friskserver &

yep, that's it. run it, background it with that little &, and go live your life. 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

friskserver is the server that controls a particular game of risk. it starts up on whatever machine you run it on, and then it just... waits. patiently. like a bestie holding your spot in line. 🫶

it waits for clients to connect. that's the whole job. that's the gig. no cap.

🎀 NOTES 🎀

okay so here's the tea, and it's important: the server (and the client too, fr fr) normally use port 5324. 🔥

wanna change that port? bestie, you can't just pass a flag or whatever — you'd have to go edit the source (RISK_PORT in riskgame.h) and then recompile everything so it actually uses your new port. it's giving ✨old school✨, it's giving "we didn't think of config files yet", but that's literally how it works. iykyk.

💀 not me having to recompile the entire thing just to change a port number. periodt.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too, bestie, they're all part of the same little family 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Joseph Nahmias <jello@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but it may be used by others, so go off, honestly 👑).

and that's the whole vibe, babe — this page is dated February 16, 2004, source <rainbow>FRISKSERVER(6x)</rainbow>. iconic, honestly. mwah 💅💖

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