---
name: "tetrinet-server"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "tetrinet-server"
version: "0.11+CVS20070911-2.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tetrinet-server"
---

# tetrinet-server(6)

server program for tetrinet

## NAME

tetrinet-server - server program for tetrinet

## SYNOPSIS

**tetrinet-server**

## DESCRIPTION

**tetrinet-server** is a server program for [**tetrinet-client**(6)](/tetrinet-client/6.md), a networked version of tetris. You can use it to server both a TetriFast and an original server for up to 6 people to connect and play. It doesn't support any fancy features like different channels, but still includes support for configureable cookie mode and a small winlist.

## OPTIONS

**tetrinet-server** doesn't take any options at all. It reads all its settings from *~/.tetrinet* on startup and creates a default file if there isn't one already there.

## EXAMPLES

This is a short explenation of the configurationfile *~/.tetrinet* together with its default entries. It is written after every game or when the server quits. If it is not there it will be created automatically.

- **winlist** *Alcan;0;3;1 AndrewK;0;2;1*

  This is the winlist the server keeps. Each parameter consists of four semicolon-seperated fields: *Name*;*Team*;*Points*;*Games*. *Team* is a flag which is either *1* if the entry is for a team or *0* if the entry is for a player. *Points* is just the number of points for the entry, and *Games* is the number of games the entry has participated.

- **classic** *1*

  Sets classic mode for the game - that means, no cookies.

- **initiallevel** *1*

  Sets the level in which the game will start.

- **linesperlevel** *2*

  Defines how many lines will issue a level increase.

- **levelinc** *1*

  How many levels are increased per **linesperlevel** removed lines.

- **averagelevels** *1*

  The levels of all player get averaged if this is set to *1*.

- **speciallines** *1*

  How many lines must be removed to get specials.

- **specialcount** *1*

  The number of specials that are added each time **speciallines**' lines are removed.

- **specialcapacity** *18*

  This number tells you how many specials you can hold.

- **pieces** *14 14 15 14 14 14 15*

  Sets the likeliness of the different pieces. Must sum up to 100. The order is: bar (dark blue), square (yellow), reverse-L (green), L (purple), Z (red), S (light blue), and T (yellow).

- **specials** *18 18 3 12 0 16 3 12 18*

  Sets the likeliness of the different specials. Must sum up to 100. The order is: A, C, N, R, S, B, G, Q, O.

- **linuxmode** *0*

  This setting selects whether the client should try to remain compatible with Windows clients.  This only affects the winlist display; if **linuxmode** is set to *1*, the server will send the number of games played by each player as well as points won.  This is set to zero by default.

- **ipv6\_only** *0*

  Listen on ipv6 only.

## FILES

- *~/.tetrinet*

  The configuration file for **tetrinet-server**.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Rhonda D'Vine \<rhonda@deb.at\>.

## SEE ALSO

[**tetrinet-client**(6)](/tetrinet-client/6.md).