gofish.1

.TH GOPHERD "1" "August 2002" "gopherd" "GoFish"
.SH NAME
gopherd \- the GoFish gopher server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gopherd
[\fI\-dp\fR] [\fI\-v\fR] [\fIconfig_file\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
GoFish is a very simple gopher server. It is designed with security
and low resource usage in mind. GoFish uses a single process that
handles all the connections. This provides low resource usage, good
latency (no context switches), and good scalability.
.PP
GoFish runs in a
.BR chroot (2)
environment. This means that GoFish can only serve
files from the root directory or below. While GoFish must run at root
privilege to be able to use port 70, it drops to a normal user while
accessing files.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-d\fR
daemon mode
.TP
\fB\-p\fR
preprocess cache
.TP
\fB\-v\fR
increase verbosity
.SH FILES
/etc/gofish.conf
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR gofish (5),
.BR dotcache (5),
.BR mkcache (1),
Internet RFC 1436
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Sean MacLennan
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to <headgopher@seanm.ca>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2002 Sean MacLennan
.br
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.