IRCDWATCH(8)

💖 IRCDWATCH(8) 💖

System Manager's Manual ✨ ircdwatch ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're talking about ircdwatch — the little babysitter for your ircd 🧚

🌸 NAME 🌸

ircdwatch — checks up on your ircd's current state, like the world's most diligent group-chat lurker 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ircdwatch [--kill | --rest | --help]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically ircdwatch peeks at ircd's current state and then starts it or kills it if that's what needs to happen. It's giving responsible older sibling energy fr fr.

• --kill — stops both ircdwatch and ircd 💀
• --rest — stops ircdwatch but leaves ircd alone, no cap, it did nothing wrong 🫶
• --help — displays the help text, for when you're lowkey lost 📖

If you start ircdwatch with no arguments at all? It checks whether ircd is running, and if it isn't, it starts it up. Main character behaviour. 👑

ngl the naming is a lil unhinged: --rest means "rest yourself", not "rest the ircd". The ircd stays wide awake. Periodt. 💅

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

• (c) 1988,1989 University of Oulu, Computing Center, Finland,
• (c) 1988,1989 Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Finland
• (c) 1988,1989,1990,1991 Jarkko Oikarinen

For the full COPYRIGHT, go read the LICENSE file that ships with the IRC package 📜 (yes, actually read it, bestie, it's right there)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• irc(1)
• ircd(8)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

ircdwatch was written by Christophe Kalt <kalt@stealth.net> 🎀

The manual page was written by Martin Loschwitz in May 2002 ✍️

and that's the whole vibe check 🦋 this page was dated 04 May 2002 and it came out of the IRCDWATCH(8) section of the System Manager's Manual — slay, stay hydrated, and may your ircd never need restarting 💖✨🎀