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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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