WHOSOND(8) WHOSON WHOSOND(8)NAMEwhosond - whoson database daemon
SYNOPSYSwhosond [-V] [-v] [-h] [-d] [-I configfile]
DESCRIPTIONwhosond command starts the daemon that maintains the in-memory database
accessible by the application programs via the whoson(3) API functions.
Command options are:
-V - print version information and exit
-v - verbose operation - print debugging output to stdout. Useful
together with -d option.
-d - do not go to the background. By default, the program forks a
child that closes stdin, stdout and stderr, detaches from the control‐
ling terminal and continue in the background. The parent process fin‐
ishes.
-I configfile Specify alternative location for the configuration file.
Default is /etc/whoson.conf.
The daemon implements one extentions to the "whoson" protocol: if you
send a command verb LIST, the daemon responds with a multiline display
of some statistics information.
COPYRIGHT
Public domain
SEE ALSOwhoson(3), whoson.conf(5)WHOSON 06 Jun 1998 WHOSOND(8)