.TH ejabberdctl 8 "27 April 2004" "Version 0.7" "ejabberdctl manual page"

.SH NAME
ejabberd Jabber/XMPP server control interface

.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP 
\fBejabberdctl\fR \fIcommand [options]\fP

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP 
\fBejabberdctl\fR  is a front end to the Apache ejabberd Jabber/XMPP server.
It is designed to help the administrator control the functioning of the
\fBejabberd\fR daemon.

.SH OPTIONS
The \fIcommand\fP can be any one of the following options:
.TP
.BI stop
Stops the ejabberd server.
.TP
.BI restart
Restarts the ejabberd server.
.TP
.BI reopen-log
Force the ejabberd server to reopen its log file.
.TP
.BI register " user password"
Register user \fIuser\fP with password \fIpassword\fP at the ejabberd server.
.TP
.BI unregister " user"
Unregister user \fIuser\fP at the ejabberd server.
.TP
.BI backup " filepath"
Backup user database of the ejabberd server to file \fIfilepath\fP.
.TP
.BI restore " filepath"
Restore user database of the ejabberd server from backup file \fIfilepath\fP.
.TP
.BI install-fallback " filepath"
Install a backup to \fIfilepath\fP as fallback. The fallback will be
used to restore the database at the next start-up.
.TP
.BI dump " filepath"
Dump user database of the ejabberd server to text file \fIfilepath\fP.
.TP
.BI load " filepath"
Restore user database of the ejabberd server from text file \fIfilepath\fP.
.TP
.BI registered-users
List all registered at the ejabberd server users.

.SH SEE ALSO 
.PP 
\fBerl\fR(1), \fBejabberd\fR(8), \fBmnesia\fR(3).

.PP 
The program documentation is available at \fIhttp://ejabberd.jabberstudio.org/\fP. 
A copy of the documentation can be found at /usr/share/doc/ejabberd/html/guide.html.
 
.SH AUTHORS
.PP 
This manual page was adapted by Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@nes.ru> for 
the \fBDebian\fP system (but may be used by others) from the
\fBejabberd\fP documentation written by Alexey Shchepin <alexey@sevcom.net>.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under 
the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any  
later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 
.PP 
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public 
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.