====== The console ======

The console is the server's control screen. It is the server's own window when it runs as a program, and attaches to the server when it runs as a service (see [[running]]).

===== The screen =====
<code>
 LORD Server 1.4 - Kalgoorlie LORD   telnet 2300  rlogin 5130  up 2:14:09  2/32 on  [service]
  #  User                 Via    Address         Node  State      Since
  1  Carol                telnet 10.0.0.71       A1    playing    13:38
  2  Bob@EXB              rlogin 203.0.113.25    A2    playing    13:41
 Log  (PgUp/PgDn to scroll)
13:41:02  [2] Bob@EXB entered game A node 2
> _
</code>
  * The **top line** shows the server's name, its ports, how long it has been up, how many are connected out of the most allowed, and whether it is a service.
  * The **connections**: number, name, telnet or rlogin, address, game and node, what they are doing, and since when.
  * The **log**, newest at the bottom. PgUp and PgDn scroll it.
  * The **command line** at the bottom. Up and Down recall earlier commands.
Everything updates every second.

===== Commands =====
^ Command ^ What it does ^
| ''help'' | The commands. |
| ''who'' | Who is connected (# is the connection number). |
| ''%%kick <#|all>%%'' | Disconnect someone, or everyone. Their game saves them first. |
| ''games'' | The games: letter, name, folder, nodes, minutes, and whether closed. |
| ''users'' | The accounts. Type: T telnet, R rlogin, S sysop, D disabled. |
| ''sysop <name>'' | Make an account a sysop. ''unsysop <name>'' undoes it. |
| ''disable <name>'' | Stop an account logging in. ''enable <name>'' undoes it. |
| ''passwd <name> <pw>'' | Set a password. An rlogin account becomes a telnet one. |
| ''adduser <name> <pw>'' | Make a telnet account (passwords are 4 characters or more). |
| ''deluser <name>'' | Delete an account. Its LORD characters stay in the games. |
| ''bbs'' | The BBSes with keys (see [[linking_a_bbs]]). |
| ''bbs add <tag> <name>'' | Give a BBS a key yourself. The key is shown once. |
| ''bbs newkey <tag>'' | A new key for a BBS; the old one stops working at once. |
| ''bbs disable <tag>'', ''bbs enable <tag>'' | Stop or allow a BBS's players. |
| ''bbs remove <tag>'' | Delete a BBS. Its players' accounts are kept. |
| ''config <game>'' | Set up a game: lordcfg in a new window (see [[games]]). |
| ''dos <game>'' | A DOS prompt (DOSBox-X) in the game folder, for installing IGMs (see [[igms]]). |
| ''reset <game>'' | Start a game again (see [[games]]). |
| ''settings'' | The server's settings on a form (see [[settings]]). |
| ''%%service [install|remove]%%'' | Whether the server is a Windows service; install or remove it. |
| ''restart'' | Restart the server, reading ''lordsrv.ini'' again. Players are disconnected and saved first. |
| ''shutdown'' | Stop the server. |
| ''quit'' | Leave the console. In the server's own window this stops the server; attached to a service it doesn't. |
| ''cls'' | Clear the log pane. |

''config'' and ''dos'' open their windows on the desktop where the console is, also when the console is attached to a service.

===== Names with spaces =====
Account names can have spaces: ''disable Mary Jane'' works. For ''passwd'' and ''adduser'', the password is the last word and the name is everything before it.