hunt/huntd/huntd.6

huntd.6 revision 1.2  Hunt
 Copyright (c) 1985 Conrad C. Huang, Gregory S. Couch, Kenneth C.R.C. Arnold
 San Francisco, California

 Copyright (c) 1985 Regents of the University of California.
 All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
 specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.

 HUNTD 6 "21 August 1986"
C 4  NAME
huntd - hunt daemon, back-end for hunt game
 SYNOPSIS
/usr/games/huntd [ -s ] [ -p port ]
 DESCRIPTION

 huntd controls the multi-player
 hunt (6) game.
When it starts up, it tries to notify all members of the
 hunt-players mailing list (see
 sendmail (8)) by faking a
 talk (1) request from user ``Hunt Game''.

The
 -s option is for running
 huntd forever (server mode).
This is similar to running it under the control of
 inetd (see below),
but it consumes a process table entry when no one is playing.

The
 -p option changes the udp port number used to rendezvous with the player
process and thus allows for private games of hunt.
This option turns off the notification of players on the
 hunt-players mailing list.
 INETD

To run
 huntd from
 inetd , you'll need to put the
 hunt service in
 /etc/services :
hunt 26740/udp # multi-player/multi-host mazewars

and add a line in
 /etc/inetd.conf :
hunt dgram udp wait nobody /usr/games/huntd HUNT

except for Suns which use
 /etc/servers :
hunt udp /usr/games/huntd

Do not use any of the command line options \(em if you want
 inetd to start up
 huntd on a private port, change the port listed in
 /etc/services .  "NETWORK RENDEZVOUS"
When
 hunt (6) starts up, it broadcasts on the local area net
(using the broadcast address for each interface) to find a
 hunt game in progress.
If a
 huntd hears the request, it sends back the port number for the
 hunt process to connect to.
Otherwise, the
 hunt process starts up a
 huntd on the local machine and trys to rendezvous with it.
 "SEE ALSO"
hunt(6), talk(1), sendmail(8)
 AUTHORS
Conrad Huang, Ken Arnold, and Greg Couch;
University of California, San Francisco, Computer Graphics Lab
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