.\" .\" Copyright (c) 2019 Ted Unangst .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES .\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR .\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES .\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" .Dd $Mdocdate$ .Dt HONK 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm honk .Nd honk administration .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm honk .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm daemon processes messages from other federated servers. This is the admin manual. For user operation, see .Xr honk 1 . .Ss SETUP .Pp Set up a TLS reverse proxy. .Nm can listen on TCP or unix sockets, but will not terminate TLS. https is a required component for federation. .Pp Make sure to pass the Host header, if necessary (as for nginx). .Bd -literal -offset indent proxy_set_header Host $http_host; .Ed .Ss INIT Run the init command. .Dl ./honk init This will create the database and ask four questions, as well as creating the initial user. .Bd -literal -offset indent username: (desired username) password: (desired password) listenaddr: (tcp or unix: localhost:31337, /var/www/honk.sock, etc.) servername: (public DNS name: honk.example.com) .Ed .Ss OPERATION Run honk. .Dl ./honk Log messages are sent to stderr and should probably be redirected to a file. .Ss MAINTENANCE The database may grow large over time. The cleanup command exists to purge old data, by default 30 days. .Ss UPGRADE Stop the old honk process. .Dl pkill honk Backup the database. .Dl cp honk.db backup.db Upgrade. .Dl ./honk upgrade Restart. .Dl ./honk .\" .Sh EXAMPLES .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr honk 1 .Sh CAVEATS There's no online upgrade capability. Upgrades may result in minutes of downtime.