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alevtd

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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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NAME

alevtd - webserver for videotext pages

SYNOPSIS

alevtd [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

alevtd is http daemon which serves videotext pages as HTML. Tune in some station with a utility like v4lctl or some TV application. Then start it and point your browser to http://localhost:5654/

Pages may be requested either in HTML format (http://localhost:5654/<page>/ or http://localhost:5654/<page>/<subpage>.html) or in ASCII text format (http://localhost:5654/<page>/<subpage>.txt). Subpage "00" can be used for pages without subpages.

OPTIONS

	-h		print a short h elp text and the default values for all options.
	-v dev		set v bi device (default: /dev/vbi0).
	-d		enable d ebug output.
	-s		Write a start/stop notice and serious errors to the s yslog. Specify this option twice to get a verbose log (additional log events like dropped connections).
	-t sec		set network t imeout to >sec< seconds.
	-c n		set the number of allowed parallel c onnections to >n<. This is a per-thread limit.

-p port

listen on p ort >port< for incoming connections. Default 5654.

-n hostname

set the host n ame which the server should use (required for redirects).

	-i ip		bind to I P-address >ip<.
	-l log		l og all requests to the logfile >log< (common log format). Using "-" as filename makes alevtd print the access log to stdout, which is only useful together with the -F switch (see below).
	-L log		same as above, but additional flush every line. Useful if you want monitor the logfile with tail -f.

-u user

set u id to >user< (after binding to the tcp port). This option is allowed for root only.

-g group

set g id to >group< (after binding to the tcp port). This option is allowed for root only.

	-F		don’t run as daemon. alevtd will not fork into background, not detach from terminal and report errors to stderr.
	-r		poll tv frequency, clear vtx page cache if a frequency change was detected.

AUTHOR

Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de>

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.