NIPAPD(8)

💖 Name 💖

okay so bestie, this is nipapd(8) — the NIPAP backend server, and she is literally the main character of your IP address management setup 💅

✨ Synopsis ✨

nipapd [option...]

🦋 Description 🦋

nipapd is the NIPAP backend server. for a client app to get at the info stored in the NIPAP database, it connects — over a network or locally — to a running nipapd backend instance and sends its' requests. that's the whole vibe 🫶

by default, nipapd forks off into the background and listens on TCP port 1337 for requests from clients. iconic behavior, no cap ✨

🎀 Options 🎀

nipapd accepts these command-line arguments. these and more options are available in the configuration file nipap.conf, which typically resides in /etc/nipap/nipap.conf. on debian-like systems, /etc/default/nipapd is used to control the startup of nipapd in the init script.

• -h, --help — show a help message, aka the little “what do I do” moment 🥺
• -d, --debug — enable debugging, for when you need the tea 🔍
• -f, --foreground — run in foreground and log to stdout
• -l ADDRESS, --listen=ADDRESS — listen to IPv4/6 ADDRESS
• -p PORT, --port=PORT — listen on TCP port PORT
• -c CONFIG-FILE, --config=CONFIG_FILE — read configuration from file CONFIG_FILE
• -P PID_FILE, --pid-file=PID_FILE — write a PID file to PID_FILE
• --no-pid-file — turn off writing a PID file (overrides config file)
• --version — display version information and exit

💀 Bugs / Caveats 💀

Who knows? ;) honestly, the manpage said it, not me 🙈

🌈 Examples 🌈

to start nipapd in the background using default values, type:

$ nipapd

to start nipapd in the foreground with debug logging, running on a specific port, e.g. 1234, and with no PID file — typically for development — type:

$ nipapd -d -f -p 1234 --no-pid-file

👑 Copyright 👑

Kristian Larsson, Lukas Garberg 2011-2014

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okay that’s the whole page, bestie — the footer was just nipapd(), with no extra source/version/date line to copy, so I’m not inventing one, periodt 💜✨