NAME

       huntd — hunt daemon, back-end for hunt game

SYNOPSIS

       huntd [-s] [-p port]

DESCRIPTION

       huntd  controls  the multi-player hunt(6) game.  When it starts up, it tries to notify all members of the
       hunt-players mailing list (see sendmail(8)) by faking a talk(1) request from user “Hunt Game”.

       The -s option is for running huntd forever (server mode).  This  is  similar  to  running  it  under  the
       control of inetd(8) (see below), but it consumes a process table entry when no one is playing.

       The  -p option changes the UDP port number used to rendezvous with the player process and thus allows for
       private games of hunt.  This option turns off the notification of players  on  the  hunt-players  mailing
       list.

   INETD
       To run huntd from inetd(8), you'll need to put the hunt service in /etc/services:

       hunt 26740/udp          # multi-player/multi-host mazewars
       and add the following line to /etc/inetd.conf:
             hunt dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/huntd huntd
       Do  not  use  any  of the command line options; if you want inetd(8) to start up huntd on a private port,
       change the port listed for hunt in /etc/services.

NETWORK RENDEZVOUS

       When hunt(6) starts up, it broadcasts on the local  area  net  (using  the  broadcast  address  for  each
       interface)  to find a hunt game in progress.  If a huntd hears the request, it sends back the port number
       for the hunt process to connect to.  Otherwise, the hunt process starts up a huntd on the  local  machine
       and tries to rendezvous with it.

SEE ALSO

       talk(1), hunt(6), sendmail(8)

AUTHORS

       Conrad Huang, Ken Arnold, and Greg Couch;
       University of California, San Francisco, Computer Graphics Lab

                                                  April 4, 2001                                         HUNTD(6)