gnexd: a Nex server written in Gawk.

This is a Nex server implemented using GNU AWK, a network-capable version
of the AWK programming language.

features:

• lightweight and fairly fast even on old systems
• comes with various scripts for startup and monitoring
• logging (via sockstat(1) on NetBSD; other systems may require tweaking)

note: AWK is an interpreted language => gawk(1) must be installed to run gnexd.

Typical gawk package installation:

	# installing on NetBSD:
	$ sudo pkgin update ;sudo pkgin install gawk

	# installing on Debian:
	$ sudo apt update ;sudo apt install gawk

documentation:

The server tarball (see below) contains the following files:

• LICENSE
• gnexd_README
• gnexd_SETUP
• gnexd_rc_d
• gnexd.awk
• gnexd_logview.sh

note: documentation is somewhat NetBSD-specific for now.

limitations:

Due to gawk's limited network capabilities gnexd is not multi-threaded and may
hang if a client fails to properly end a session. On NetBSD tcpdrop(8) can be run
periodically to close out any persisting sessions so as to maximize network availability.

source:

Ready to try? => gnexd.tgz