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16.Dd $Mdocdate$
17.Dt HONK 8
18.Os
19.Sh NAME
20.Nm honk
21.Nd honk administration
22.Sh DESCRIPTION
23The
24.Nm
25daemon processes messages from other federated servers.
26This is the admin manual.
27For user operation, see
28.Xr honk 1 .
29.Ss SETUP
30.Pp
31Set up a TLS reverse proxy.
32.Nm
33can listen on TCP or unix sockets, but will not terminate TLS.
34https is a required component for federation.
35.Pp
36Make sure to pass the Host header, if necessary (as for nginx).
37.Bd -literal -offset indent
38proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
39.Ed
40.Ss INIT
41Run the init command.
42.Dl ./honk init
43This will create the database and ask four questions, as well as creating
44the initial user.
45.Bd -literal -offset indent
46username: (desired username)
47password: (desired password)
48listenaddr: (tcp or unix: localhost:31337, /var/www/honk.sock, etc.)
49servername: (public DNS name: honk.example.com)
50.Ed
51.Ss OPERATION
52Run honk.
53.Dl ./honk
54Log messages are sent to stderr and should probably be redirected to a file.
55.Ss MAINTENANCE
56The database may grow large over time.
57The cleanup command exists to purge old data, by default 30 days.
58.Ss UPGRADE
59Stop the old honk process.
60.Dl pkill honk
61Backup the database.
62.Dl cp honk.db backup.db
63Upgrade.
64.Dl ./honk upgrade
65Restart.
66.Dl ./honk
67.\" .Sh EXAMPLES
68.Sh SEE ALSO
69.Xr honk 1
70.Sh CAVEATS
71There's no online upgrade capability.
72Upgrades may result in minutes of downtime.