---
name: "rbot"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rbot"
version: "0.9.15+post20100705+gitb3aa806-3"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rbot"
---

# rbot(1)

IRC bot written in ruby

## NAME

rbot - IRC bot written in ruby

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

**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) Duck@DuckCorp.org 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.

## AUTHORS

**Marc Dequènes** \<Duck@DuckCorp.org\>

Debian(TM) package maintainer

**Giuseppe Bilotta** \<giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com\>

rbot maintainer

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2004-2009 Marc Dequènes (Duck)\
 Copyright © 2010 Giuseppe Bilotta\