Some fixes to the man page

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Dirk Engling 7 months ago
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.Dd 15/4/2024
.Dt opentracker 1
.Os posix
.Os Unix
.Sh opentracker
.Nm opentracker
.Nd a free and open bittorrent tracker
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a bittorrent tracker that implements announce and scrape actions over the
udp and the plain http protocol, aiming for minimal resource usage.
UDP and the plain http protocol, aiming for minimal resource usage.
.Pp
When invoked with parameters, it binds to tcp and udp port 6969 on all
When invoked with parameters, it binds to TCP and UDP port 6969 on all
interfaces. The recommended way to configure opentracker is by providing a
config file using the
.Op Fl f Ar config
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.Op Fl P
commands will limit opentracker to only bind to this address.
.It Fl p Ar port-bind-tcp
Bind to the tcp port on the last preceding ip address set with the
Bind to the TCP port on the last preceding ip address set with the
.Op Fl i ip-select
option or to all available addresses if none has been set. Can be given multiple
times.
.It Fl p Ar port-bind-udp
Bind to the udp port on the last preceding ip address set with the
.It Fl P Ar port-bind-udp
Bind to the UDP port on the last preceding ip address set with the
.Op Fl i ip-select
option or to all available addresses if none has been set. Can be given multiple
times.
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Start
.Nm
bound on udp and tcp ports 6969 on IPv6 localhost.
bound on UDP and TCP ports 6969 on IPv6 localhost.
.Dl # ./opentracker -i ::1 -p 6969 -P 6969
.Pp
Start
.Nm
bound on port udp and tcp port 6868 on IPv4 localhost and allow
privileged access from the nnetwork 192.168/16 while redirecting
HTTP clients accessing / to https://my-trackersite.com/.
bound on UDP port 6868 and TCP port 6868 on IPv4 localhost and allow
privileged access from the network 192.168/16 while redirecting
HTTP clients accessing the root directory, which is not covered by the
bittorrent tracker protocol, to https://my-trackersite.com/.
.Dl # ./opentracker -i 192.168.0.4 -p 6868 -P 6969 -A 192.168/16 -r https://my-trackersite.com/
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udp://192.168.0.4:6868/announce respectively.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width -compact
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Pa opentracker.conf
The
.Nm
config file.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr opentracker.conf 4
.Pp
opentracker documentation
.Lk https://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker
.Pp
Bittorrent tracker protocol
.Lk http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0015.html
.Sh
.Sh AUTHOR
.An Dirk Engling
.Aq erdgeist@erdgeist.org .
.Aq Mt erdgeist@erdgeist.org .
.Sh LICENSE
This software is released under the Beerware License:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software
and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software with the following
terms and conditions:
If you meet the author(s) someday, and you think this software is worth it, you can buy them
a beer in return.

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