Configuration

Run pboted --help to show builtin help message.

General options

Note

service option are only used as argument for pboted, these option have no effect when set in pboted.conf.

Option	Description	Default
daemon	pboted will go to background after start	no
service	pboted will use system folders like `/var/lib/pboted`	no
conf	Config file. This parameter will be silently ignored if the specified config file does not exist.	`~/.pboted/pboted.conf` or `/etc/pboted/pboted.conf`
pidfile	Where to write pidfile	`~/.pboted/pboted.pid` or `/var/lib/pboted/pboted.pid`
log	Logs destination: `stdout`, `file`, `syslog` (if daemon, `stdout`/`unspecified` are replaced by `file` in some cases)	`stdout` if not set or invalid
logfile	Path to logfile	autodetect
loglevel	Log messages above this level (`debug`, `info`, `warn`, `error`, `none`)	`info`
logclftime	Write full CLF-formatted date and time to log (default: write only time)	no
host	External IP for incoming connections	`0.0.0.0`
port	UDP port to listen for incoming connections	`5050`
storage	Limit for local storage usage (`B`, `KiB`, `MiB`, `GiB`, `TiB`)	`50 MiB`
cleaninterval	Duration in days of node/peer unavailability after which it will be deleted	`7`
coresize	Maximum size of corefile in KiB (0 - use system limit)	Use system limit
openfiles	Maximum number of open files (0 - use system limit)	Use system limit

Option	Description	Default
control.enabled	Enable control	`true`
control.socket	Path to control socket (caution in Windows)	`~/pboted/pboted.sock` or `/var/lib/pboted/pbote.sock`
control.address	Control listen address	`127.0.0.1`
control.port	Control listen TCP port	`5055`

Option	Description	Default
sam.name	Nickname, showed in I2P router	`pboted`
sam.address	I2P roter address with enabled SAM	`127.0.0.1`
sam.tcp	I2P SAM TCP port	`7656`
sam.udp	I2P SAM UDP port	`7655`
sam.key	Path to I2P destination private key file	`~/.pboted/destination.key` or `/var/lib/pboted/destination.key`

Note

The example configuration file has already added nodes for bootstrap

Option	Description	Default
bootstrap.address	These are the nodes with high uptime and the most information about peers in the network. To get started, you need at least one node that supports protocol version 4 or higher. Each line should be a I2P destination key in Base64 format.	-

You can specify this parameter multiple times with different addresses.
For example:

[bootstrap]
address = <first address>
address = <second address>
...
address = <N-th address>

Last update: 2023-03-08