erbium(8)

erbium(8) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is from the System management commands girlies, it's erbium(8), and I'm literally about to make you obsessed with it. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

erbium — network services for small/home networks. that's it, that's the vibe 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

erbium [path/to/erbium.conf]

like. so simple. iconic. no cap.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so erbium is a collection of networking services for small/home networks. the whole point — and I need you to understand this — is that it's an easily configured daemon that gives you all the networking protocol support you need for a small/home network. like it just handles it. for you. main character energy fr fr 👑

currently erbium supports DHCP and has limited support for DNS, but bestie, other protocols are planned. it's giving roadmap. it's giving soon. 🙈

now here's the tea: erbium ships a number of related binaries. the main erbium binary implements all the protocols in one integrated binary, but there are also individual binaries for each protocol so you can test them. and this part matters:

when you run the combined erbium binary, the protocols will integrate with each other. when you run them separately, there is no integration between the protocols. periodt. 💀

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• path/to/erbium.conf — give it the path to the configuration file you want it to read instead of erbium.conf. literally just hand it a different file and it'll use that one instead. slay 💖

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• RUST_BACKTRACE=full — erbium is written in rust 🦀 so you can configure the rust runtime and how it displays backtraces using environment variables. iykyk.

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• erbium.conf

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💀 BUGS 💀

not me having to say this but — erbium is currently under active development, and many important features and protocols are not yet complete, or even implemented yet. so like. she's growing. be patient with her. she's doing her best. 😭🌸

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• erbium.conf(5)
• erbium-dns(8)
• erbium-dhcp(8)
• erbium-conftest(8)

go read those too bestie, they're part of the friend group 🫶

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and that's the whole page!! this one's from the Linux girlies, dated 2022-05-30, and it lives in section 8 of your manual. mwah, ily, go configure something ✨💜