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GN command line arguments

Most of the configuration information must be compiled into the GN server (covered in Section ). Only a few aspects can be overridden from the command line. The syntax of the GN server command line is:

  gn [-option ...] [root-directory]

The root-directory argument can be supplied to override the pathname which was specified when the server was compiled (see Section ). The following command line options are accepted:

-a

Access should be limited to hosts specified in a .access file in the root directory (see Section ).

-A

Access should be limited as for the -a option, but GN looks for a .access file in the directory of the file being requested, or in each of the parent directories up to the root directory.

-c cache-file

Specifies the name of the cache file, which lists the files in a directory that may be served. This name is used for the cache file in each directory.

-k user-id

Specifies the identity of the user that must own a cache file, in order for documents listed within that file to be served (see Section ).

-K group-id

Specifies the identity of the group that must own a cache file, in order for documents listed within that file to be served.

-L log-file

Specifies the name of the log file to be used.

-S

Use the system logging facility (syslog) for logging instead of a log file specified using -L.

-t root-dir-title

Specifies the title of the top-level Web document, which corresponds to the top-level Gopher menu.

The GN server distribution contains extensive documentation in the doc subdirectory, both in HTML and plain text format.

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