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.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.