| Linux / Unix Command: alevtd |
NAME
alevtd - webserver for videotext pagesSYNOPSIS
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 help text and the default values for all options.
- -v dev
- set vbi device (default: /dev/vbi).
- -d
- enable debug output.
- -s
- Write a start/stop notice and serious errors to the syslog. Specify this option twice to get a verbose log (additional log events like dropped connections).
- -t sec
- set network timeout to >sec< seconds.
- -c n
- set the number of allowed parallel connections to >n<. This is a per-thread limit.
- -p port
- listen on port >port< for incoming connections. Default 5654.
- -n hostname
- set the hostname which the server should use (required for redirects).
- -i ip
- bind to IP-address >ip<.
- -l log
- log 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 uid to >user< (after binding to the tcp port). This option is allowed for root only.
- -g group
- set gid 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.
SEE ALSO
alevt(1), xawtv(1), v4lctl(1)Important: Use the man command (% man) to see how a command is used on your particular computer.
