-* -hostname: hostname to show for client's connections
-* -bind: address to bind to (:6667 be default)
-* -motd: absolute path to MOTD file. It is reread every time MOTD is
- requested
-* -logdir: directory where all channels messages will be saved. If
- omitted, then no logs will be kept
-* -statedir: directory where all channels states will be saved and
- loaded during startup. If omitted, then states will be
- lost after daemon termination
+ -hostname: hostname to show for client's connections
+ -bind: address to bind to (:6667 by default)
+ -motd: absolute path to MOTD file. It is reread every time
+ MOTD is requested
+ -logdir: directory where all channels messages will be saved. If
+ omitted, then no logs will be kept
+ -statedir: directory where all channels states will be saved and
+ loaded during startup. If omitted, then states will be
+ lost after daemon termination
+ -tlsbind : enable TLS, specify address to listen on and path
+ -tlspem to PEM file with certificate and private key
+ -passwords: enable client authentication and specify path to
+ passwords file
+ -v: increase verbosity
+
+TLS
+
+If you specify -bind and -tlsbind simultaneously, then you will have
+both raw and encrypted listening sockets. You can use -bind "" to
+disable raw socket.
+
+AUTHENTICATION
+
+You can turn on optional client authentication by preparing passwords
+file and using the -passwords argument. Format of passwords file is:
+
+ login1:password1\n
+ login2:password2\n
+ ...
+
+You can force rereading of passwords file without server interruption by
+sending HUP signal to him.
+
+LOG FILES
+
+Log files are not opened all the time, but only during each message
+saving. That is why you can safely rename them for rotation purposes.
+
+STATE FILES
+
+Each state file has the name equals to room's one. It contains two plain
+text lines: room's topic and room's authentication key (empty if none
+specified). For example:
+
+ % cat states/meinroom
+ This is meinroom's topic
+ secretkey