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1.1     ! root        1: .\"  Hunt
        !             2: .\"  Copyright (c) 1985 Conrad C. Huang, Gregory S. Couch, Kenneth C.R.C. Arnold
        !             3: .\"  San Francisco, California
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"  Copyright (c) 1985 Regents of the University of California.
        !             6: .\"  All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             7: .\"  specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             8: .\"
        !             9: .TH HUNTD 6 "21 August 1986"
        !            10: .UC 4
        !            11: .SH NAME
        !            12: huntd \- hunt daemon, back-end for hunt game
        !            13: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            14: \fB/usr/games/lib/huntd\fP [ \fB\-s\fP ] [ \fB\-p\fP port ]
        !            15: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            16: .PP
        !            17: .I huntd
        !            18: controls the multi-player
        !            19: .IR hunt (6)
        !            20: game.
        !            21: When it starts up, it tries to notify all members of the
        !            22: .I hunt-players
        !            23: mailing list (see
        !            24: .IR sendmail (8))
        !            25: by faking a
        !            26: .IR talk (1)
        !            27: request from user ``Hunt Game''.
        !            28: .PP
        !            29: The
        !            30: .B \-s
        !            31: option is for running
        !            32: .I huntd
        !            33: forever (server mode).
        !            34: This is similar to running it under the control of
        !            35: .I inetd
        !            36: (see below),
        !            37: but it consumes a process table entry when no one is playing.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: The
        !            40: .B \-p
        !            41: option changes the udp port number used to rendezvous with the player
        !            42: process and thus allows for private games of hunt.
        !            43: This option turns off the notification of players on the
        !            44: .I hunt-players
        !            45: mailing list.
        !            46: .SH INETD
        !            47: .PP
        !            48: To run
        !            49: .I huntd
        !            50: from
        !            51: .IR inetd ,
        !            52: you'll need to put the
        !            53: .I hunt
        !            54: service in
        !            55: .BR /etc/services :
        !            56: .IP
        !            57: hunt 26740/udp         # multi-player/multi-host mazewars
        !            58: .LP
        !            59: and add a line in
        !            60: .BR /etc/inetd.conf :
        !            61: .IP
        !            62: hunt dgram udp wait nobody /usr/games/lib/huntd HUNT
        !            63: .LP
        !            64: except for Suns which use
        !            65: .BR /etc/servers :
        !            66: .IP
        !            67: hunt udp /usr/games/lib/huntd
        !            68: .LP
        !            69: Do not use any of the command line options \(em if you want
        !            70: .I inetd
        !            71: to start up
        !            72: .I huntd
        !            73: on a private port, change the port listed in
        !            74: .BR /etc/services .
        !            75: .SH "NETWORK RENDEZVOUS"
        !            76: When
        !            77: .IR hunt (6)
        !            78: starts up, it broadcasts on the local area net
        !            79: (using the broadcast address for each interface) to find a
        !            80: .I hunt
        !            81: game in progress.
        !            82: If a
        !            83: .I huntd
        !            84: hears the request, it sends back the port number for the
        !            85: .I hunt
        !            86: process to connect to.
        !            87: Otherwise, the
        !            88: .I hunt
        !            89: process starts up a
        !            90: .I huntd
        !            91: on the local machine and trys to rendezvous with it.
        !            92: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            93: hunt(6), talk(1), sendmail(8)
        !            94: .SH AUTHORS
        !            95: Conrad Huang, Ken Arnold, and Greg Couch;
        !            96: .br
        !            97: University of California, San Francisco, Computer Graphics Lab
        !            98: .\"SH BUGS

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