.Dd December 13, 2019
.Dt LITTERBOX 1
.Os
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.Sh NAME
.Nm litterbox
.Nd IRC logger
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl d Ar path
.Op Fl h Ar host
.Op Fl j Ar join
.Op Fl n Ar nick
.Op Fl p Ar port
.Op Fl u Ar user
.Op Fl w Ar pass
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.Nm
.Fl i | m
.Op Fl d Ar path
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
daemon logs IRC activity to a database
which may be queried with
.Xr scoop 1 .
.
.Pp
The arguments are as follows:
.
.Bl -tag -width "-h host"
.It Fl d Ar path
Set the path to the database file.
The database must be initialized with
.Fl i .
See
.Sx FILES
for the default path.
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.It Fl h Ar host
Connect to
.Ar host .
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.It Fl i
Initialize the database.
.
.It Fl j Ar join
Join the comma-separated list of channels
.Ar join .
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.It Fl m
Migrate the database to the latest version.
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.It Fl n Ar nick
Set the nickname to
.Ar nick .
The default nickname is
.Dq litterbox .
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.It Fl p Ar port
Connect to
.Ar port .
The default port is 6697.
.
.It Fl u Ar user
Set the username to
.Ar user .
The default username is the same as the nickname.
.
.It Fl w Ar pass
Log in with the server password
.Ar pass .
.El
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.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Pa $XDG_DATA_DIRS/litterbox/litterbox.sqlite
The database file is searched for first in
.Ev $XDG_DATA_HOME ,
usually
.Pa ~/.local/share ,
followed by the colon-separated list of paths
.Ev $XDG_DATA_DIRS ,
usually
.Pa /usr/local/share:/usr/share .
.It Pa ~/.local/share/litterbox/litterbox.sqlite
The most likely path to the database file.
.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr scoop 1 ,
.Xr unscoop 1
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.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm
daemon implements the following:
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.Bl -item
.It
.Rs
.%A Waldo Bastian
.%A Ryan Lortie
.%A Lennart Poettering
.%T XDG Base Directory Specification
.%D November 24, 2010
.%U https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
.Re
.
.It
.Rs
.%A C. Kalt
.%T Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol
.%I IETF
.%N RFC 2812
.%D April 2000
.%U https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812
.Re
.El
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.Sh AUTHORS
.An June Bug Aq Mt june@causal.agency
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.Sh BUGS
Send mail to
.Aq Mt june@causal.agency
or join
.Li #ascii.town
on
.Li chat.freenode.net .