1 .TH guacd 8 "6 May 2012" "version 0.6.1" "Guacamole"
4 guacd \- Guacamole proxy daemon
15 is the Guacamole proxy daemon used by the Guacamole web application and
16 framework. As JavaScript cannot handle binary protocols (like VNC and remote
17 desktop) efficiently, a new text-based protocol was developed which would
18 contain a common superset of the operations needed for efficient remote
19 desktop access, but would be easy for JavaScript programs to process.
21 is the proxy which translates between arbitrary protocols and the Guacamole
27 Changes the host or address that
34 listens on (the default is port 4822).
39 to write the PID of the daemon process to the specified
40 file. This is useful for init scripts and is used by the provided init
46 to run in the foreground, rather than automatically forking into the
50 Written by Michael Jumper <zhangmaike@users.sourceforge.net>