qotdd man page

qotdd [OPTION]...

qotdd [--help | --version]

QOTD (quote of the day) is specified in RFC 865 as a way of broadcasting a quote to users. On both TCP and UDP, port 17 is officially reserved for this purpose. qotdd(8) is meant to provide a simple QOTD daemon on IPv4 and/or IPv6 on either TCP or UDP.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-f, --foreground

Do not fork, but run in the foreground.

-c, --config config-file

Specify an alternate configuration file location. The default is at `/etc/qotd.conf'. (Overrides a previous -c or -N option)

-N, --noconfig

Do not read from a configuration file, but use the default options instead. (Overrides a previous -c option)

--lax

Disable strict configuration parsing. Without this option, the daemon will perform security checks on input files. Be aware that using this option makes the program vulnerable to confused deputy attacks.

For more information on the following three options, see qotd.conf(5):

-P, --pidfile pidfile

Override the pidfile name given in the configuration file with the given file instead.

-s, --quotes quotes-file

Override the quotes file given in the configuration file with the given file instead.

-j, --journal journal-file

Overrides the journal file given in the configuration file with the given file instead.

-4, --ipv4

Only listen on IPv4. The default behavior is to listen on both IPv4 and IPv6.

-6, --ipv6

Only listen on IPv6.

-t, --tcp

Use TCP instead of UDP. This is the default behavior.

-u, --udp

Use UDP instead of TCP. (Not fully implemented yet)

-q, --quiet

Only output error messages. This is the same as using `--journal /dev/null'.

--help

List all options and what they do.

--version

Print the version and some basic license information.

qotdd has the following return codes:

0

success

1

general error

17

invalid arguments

18

invalid configuration file or settings

19

failed a security check

20

out of memory

21

I/O or network error

22

SIGSEGV or SIGINT killed the process

23

unsupported operation

24

internal error

qotd.conf(5), telnet(1), netcat(1)

Ammon Smith (ammon.i.smith@gmail.com)

qotd.conf(5).