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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
42.Ic init
43command.
44.Dl ./honk init
45This will create the database and ask four questions, as well as creating
46the initial user.
47.Bd -literal -offset indent
48username: (desired username)
49password: (desired password)
50listenaddr: (tcp or unix: localhost:31337, /var/www/honk.sock, etc.)
51servername: (public DNS name: honk.example.com)
52.Ed
53.Ss OPERATION
54Run honk.
55.Dl date; ./honk >> log 2>&1
56Log messages are sent to stderr and should probably be redirected to a file.
57.Ss CUSTOMIZATION
58Add custom memes (stickers) to the
59.Pa memes
60directory.
61Image and video files are supported.
62.Pp
63Add custom emus (emoji) to the
64.Pa emus
65directory.
66Image files are supported.
67.Pp
68Site CSS may be overridden by creating a
69.Pa views/local.css
70file.
71.Pp
72A custom message me be set by editing the database.
73(Sorry.)
74.Dl insert into config values ('servermsg', 'message');
75.Pp
76The
77.Pa views/about.html
78page doesn't change too frequently.
79It should be safe to edit.
80.Ss ADMIN
81New users can be added with the
82.Ic adduser
83command.
84This is discouraged.
85.Dl ./honk adduser
86.Ss MAINTENANCE
87The database may grow large over time.
88The
89.Ic cleanup
90command exists to purge old data, by default 30 days.
91.Ss UPGRADE
92Stop the old honk process.
93.Dl pkill honk
94Backup the database.
95.Dl cp honk.db backup.db
96Perform the upgrade with the
97.Ic upgrade
98command.
99.Dl ./honk upgrade
100Restart.
101.Dl ./honk
102.Pp
103There's also a
104.Pa blob.db
105file which is important to backup and restore.
106.Sh ENVIRONMENT
107Image processing and scaling requires considerable memory.
108It is recommended to adjust the datasize ulimit to at least 1GB.
109.Sh SEE ALSO
110.Xr intro 1 ,
111.Xr honk 1
112.Sh CAVEATS
113There's no online upgrade capability.
114Upgrades may result in minutes of downtime.