.\" sipw - sipwitch service daemon. .\" Copyright (c) 2009 David Sugar .\" .\" This manual page is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software .\" Foundation, Inc.,59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. .\" .\" This manual page is written especially for Debian GNU/Linux. .\" .TH sipw "8" "December 2009" "GNU SIP Witch" "GNU Telephony" .SH NAME sipw \- sipwitch service daemon .SH SYNOPSIS .B sipw .RB [ options ] .br .SH DESCRIPTION This is a service daemon for the SIP protocol. This daemon enables sip devices and softphone applications to register as well as to route messages for the SIP protocol between arbitrary endpoints, both locally and remote over the Internet using DNS to resolve destination uri's. As a telephone system, \fBsipw\fR offers call redirection, speed dials, call forwarding, sms style instant messaging, and the ability to ring multiple user agents tied together under a common user id. .PP The \fBsipw\fR daemon is also being used as a mediator for desktop telephony. For this purpose, sip users become the same as normal login accounts which happen to be in a specific group of sipusers, and \fBsipw\fR will assume a role for VoIP services similar to what gstreamer does for media. .SH OPTIONS Normally the \fBsipw\fR daemon is started from an init script or upstart rather than manually, and hence only those options setable in the .I /etc/default/sipwitch config file can be set. However, the \fBsipw\fR daemon can be manually started, both in the foreground for testing, and in the background. If this is done, a number of options may be passed to it directly as documented. .TP .B \-\-background Execute the \fBsipw\fR daemon detached in the background (default). .TP .BI \-\-concurrency= level Set the pthread concurrency level for the \fBsipw\fR process. .TP .BI \-\-debug= level Specify debug logging \fIlevel\fR (0-9). When run in foreground debug messages are shown on the console. When in background they are saved in the sipwitch log file. .TP .B \-\-foreground Execute the \fBsipw\fR daemon in the foreground, with output shown on stdout or stderr. .TP .B \-\-gdb Execute the \fBsipw\fR daemon under control of gdb for full debugging. .TP .BI \-\-group= id Specify the group \fIid\fR that the \fBsipw\fR daemon will execute as for receiving control messages or access to daemon managed shared memory. .TP .B \-\-memcheck Execute the \fBsipw\fR daemon under valgrind to validate basic memory management. .TP .B \-\-memleak Execute the \fBsipw\fR daemon under valgrind for full memory leak detection. .TP .B \-\-no\-localusers Disable use of local (system) user accounts entirely. .TP .BI \-\-plugins= names Load only these specified plugins from /var/lib/sipwitch. .TP .BI \-\-priority= level Execute the \fBsipw\fR daemon under the realtime (fifo) schedule, and specify a realtime process priority \fIlevel\fR (1-9). .TP .B \-\-restarable The \fBsipw\fR daemon will automatically restart if it exits or crashes other than from a manually specified reason. This is often used on BSD systems when \fBsipw\fR is started from an rc file. .TP .B \-\-trace Logs sip messages the \fBsipw\fR daemon sends and receives. .TP .B \-\-version Print the currently installed version of sipwitch to standard output. .SH AUTHOR .B sipw was written by David Sugar . .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to sipwitch-devel@gnu.org. .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2009 David Sugar, Tycho Softworks. .br This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.