rbot(1)

rbot1

Irc bot written in ruby

Usage

rbot [{[-d] | [--debug]} {[-h] | [--help]} {[-v] | [--version]} {[-l LEVEL] | [--loglevel LEVEL]} {[-b] | [--background]} {[-p PIDFILE] | [--pidfile PIDFILE]}] [confdir]

Overview

rbot starts the Rbot (ruby IRC bot).

Options

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-d, --debug

Display debug information (very verbose).

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-v, --version

Display version information.

-l LEVEL, --loglevel LEVEL

Sets the minimum log level verbosity. Possible values for the loglevel are 0 (DEBUG), 1 (INFO), 2 (WARN), 3 (ERROR), 4 (FATAL). The default loglevel is 1 (INFO messages). The logfile is located at BOTDIR/BOTNAME.log and doesn't contain IRC logs (which are located at BOTDIR/logs/*), but only rbot diagnostic messages.

-b, --background

Background (daemonize) the bot.

-p PIDFILE, --pidfile PIDFILE

Write the bot pid to PIDFILE. The default pidfile is BOTDIR/rbot.pid.

BOTDIR

Path to the directory where are stored the bot's configuration files. The default config directory is ~/.rbot.

Version

This manual page was written by Marc Dequènes (Duck) [email protected] for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7

--background since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --loglevel since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --pidfile since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --version since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -b since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -l since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -p since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -v since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

Authors

Marc Dequènes <[email protected]>

Debian(TM) package maintainer

Giuseppe Bilotta <[email protected]>

rbot maintainer

From rbot 0.9.15+post20100705+gitb3aa806-3 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.