.TH pica-node 8   
.SH NAME
pica-node \- start the node for Pica Pica Messenger distributed network
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pica-node
[\-f configuration file] [\-v | \-vv | \-vvv] 
.SH DESCRIPTION
Pica Pica node serves Pica Pica distributed network. It authenticates users,
provides info about other existing nodes and online users, routes encrypted
connections between users.
.PP
.B pica-node
listens for TCP connections from clients and other nodes. On startup it loads
nodelist database and tries to connect to each node listed there. At least one
node should be alive for successful join to Pica Pica distributed network.
.B

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\-h
display help
.TP
\-f 
.I config_file_name

Specifies the name of the configuration file. The default is /etc/pica-node.conf
.TP
\-v
Verbose mode. This is helpful in debugging problems.  Multiple -v options 
increase the verbosity.  The maximum is 3.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I /etc/pica-node.conf
Configuration file. See 
.BR pica-node.conf (5)
for details
.TP
.I /var/lib/pica-node/nodelist.db
Nodelist database. This is SQLite 3 database file.
.TP
.I /usr/share/pica-node/CA.pem
Certificate Authority X509 certificate in .pem format
.SH AUTHOR
Anton Sviridenko (anton (at) picapica.im, anton (at) picapica.ge)
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR pica-node.conf(5)

.BR http://picapica.im