CONVERSD(8)

📦 version 1.8, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 CONVERSD (8) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the conversd page — it lives in section 8 of the htpp Ping-Pong Convers manual, and it's literally the moment. grab a snack 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

conversd — Hessu's Tampa Ping-Pong conversd URO modified 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

conversd [-f] [-t]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this is the Ping-Pong conversd, and it's derived from WAMPES' conversd by Dieter Deyke <deyke@mdddhd.fc.hp.com>. it also gets used on the Internet for ham radio conversation groups, which is giving very much community energy fr fr 🫶

the "standard" TCP port you use with conversd is 3600. you can change that with the Port directive in the configuration file, slay 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -f — by default, conversd makes itself a daemon by forking itself to the background automatically, no thoughts head empty, it just goes. the -f parameter disables this behaviour, which is useful if you need to run it from inittab (respawn) or from a looping shell script so it restarts after it dies in bugs 😭
  • -t — runs conversd in try-only mode. it reads the configuration file, does all the initialization, and then dies immediately after that. it does not bind the port, accept connections, or start linking. super useful for verifying whether your configuration is valid after changes — before you kill off the running copy and start a new one 👑

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /usr/local/sbin/conversd — this is the daemon itself. the main character 💫
  • /usr/local/etc/convers.conf — configuration file (self-documenting, it explains itself, we love a self-aware king)
  • /usr/local/etc/convers.issue — general text. displayed at connect time.
  • /usr/local/etc/convers.motd — motto of the day, displayed at user login (after the /name command).
  • /usr/local/etc/convers.help — user /help file 📖
  • /var/log/convers.log.* — convers logins/logouts are logged here for the /last command.
  • /usr/local/var/lib/conversd/personals/<callsign> — user /personals are saved here 💌
  • /usr/local/var/lib/conversd/nicknames/<callsign> — user /nicknames are saved here ✨

🌈 UPDATES 🌈

newer releases of this software might be found here, go look bestie:

ftp://n1uro.ampr.org/pub/hamradio/packet/htppu-*.tgz

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the Ping-Pong convers package was written by Fred Baumgarten (dc6iq@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de). modified and renamed to htppu by Brian Rogers (n1uro@n1uro.net). original manual page by Michael Meifert (mime@dk3hg.hanse.de). the server was enhanced and renamed to tpp by Brian Lantz. and later, cleaned up, enhanced more and renamed to htpp by Heikki Hannikainen <hessu@hes.iki.fi>. minor mods and bugfixes by Tony Jenkins G8TBF. changed to V1.23.

and that's the whole vibe, bestie 🧚 — this was the htpp Ping-Pong Convers manual, dated 4 May 1994, and honestly? iconic. periodt 💜✨

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