CSERVER(8)

✨ CSERVER(8) ✨ — like, the System Manager's Manual section 8 vibe 💅

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're learning cserver(8) and it's genuinely giving ✨infrastructure✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

cserver — To start the Chinese server. 🀄✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cserver  [-f file ]  [-s file ]

🦋 DEFAULT PATH 🦋

/usr/local/bin/cWnn4/cserver

that's where she lives. that's her home address. no cap 🏠

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, during Chinese input, cserver is the one providing the services (conversion services, bestie, the whole thing) and the resources (dictionaries, grammar files, etc.) that the users — meaning the front-end processors — literally require. she's the backbone. the main character. the server of servers. 👑

the input environment itself is provided by the front-end processor (cuum), which sends its request over to cserver, and then cserver does the service and returns the result right back to the front-end processor. like a relay race but make it elegant. 🏃♀️💨

normally, once the system is up, fork() gets executed and the server just runs as a background process. very demure, very background. and the startup of cserver can be set in "/etc/rc" so it gets executed automatically in the Unix system. set it and forget it, periodt. 💫

when the "cserver" command is executed, all the settings in the initialization file "/usr/local/lib/wnn/zh_CN/cserverrc" get read, and the corresponding initialization operations get performed. every single one. she reads. she performs. she slays. 📖✨

besides that, all resources like dictionaries and usage frequency files of the clients are maintained by cserver. so if you want the details on "cserverrc", refer to the cWnn manual. iykyk. 📚

💀 and listen — if the user happens to start up cserver after it has already been started, an error message will be given. not me double-starting the server 😭. refer to the cWnn manual for the error message.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -f file — file is the specified initialization file for the server. if this option is not specified, the default initialization file "/usr/local/lib/wnn/zh_CN/cserverrc" will be read. 💜
• -s file — file is the specified logfile of cserver. all error messages will be directed to this specified logfile. and when file is specified as "-", (eg. cserver -s -), the error messages will be sent to the standard error output. screaming into the void, but make it stderr. 🫶

🌈 NOTE 🌈

1. the command options inside [ ] shown in the Command Format indicate that they are optional. brackets = optional, bestie, that's the whole lore. 🎀
2. if they are not required, "cserver" alone is sufficient to start up the Chinese server. just her. no extra flags. no notes. iconic. 👑

and that's the whole page, angel 💖 go forth and serve those Chinese input resources responsibly 🧚

this was the cserver(8) page from the System Manager's Manual, dated 13 May 1992 — yes, 1992, she's vintage, she's a classic, she's been serving since before we were born and we respect her for it 🕰️💜