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ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
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(c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton,
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alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
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ngIRCd is free software and published under the
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terms of the GNU General Public License.
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-- INSTALL --
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I. Upgrade Information
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Differences to version 0.6.x
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- Some options of the configure script have been renamed:
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--disable-syslog -> --without-syslog
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--disable-zlib -> --without-zlib
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Please call "./configure --help" to review the full list of options!
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Differences to version 0.5.x
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- Starting with version 0.6.0, other servers are identified using asynchronous
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passwords: therefore the variable "Password" in [Server]-sections has been
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replaced by "MyPassword" and "PeerPassword".
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- New configuration variables, section [Global]: MaxConnections, MaxJoins
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(see example configuration file "doc/sample-ngircd.conf"!).
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II. Standard Installation
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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ngIRCd is developed for UNIX-based systems, which means that the installation
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on modern UNIX-like systems that are supported by GNU autoconf and GNU
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automake ("configure") should be no problem.
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The normal installation procedure after getting (and expanding) the source
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files (using a distribution archive or CVS) is as following:
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1) ./autogen.sh [only necessary when using CVS]
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2) ./configure
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3) make
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4) make install
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1): "autogen.sh"
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The first step, autogen.sh, is only necessary if the configure-script isn't
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already generated. This never happens in official ("stable") releases in
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tar.gz-archives, but when using CVS.
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This step is therefore only interesting for developers.
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autogen.sh produces the Makefile.in's, which are necessary for the configure
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script itself, and some more files for make. To run autogen.sh you'll need
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GNU autoconf and GNU automake (use recent versions! autoconf 2.53 and
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automake 1.6.1 are known to work).
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Again: "end users" do not need this step!
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2): "./configure"
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The configure-script is used to detect local system dependencies.
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In the perfect case, configure should recognise all needed libraries, header
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files and so on. If this shouldn't work, "./configure --help" shows all
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possible options.
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In addition, you can pass some command line options to "configure" to enable
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and/or disable some features of ngIRCd. All these options are shown using
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"./configure --help", too.
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Compiling a static binary will avoid you the hassle of feeding a chroot dir
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(if you want use the chroot feature). Just do something like:
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CFLAGS=-static ./configure [--your-options ...]
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Then you can use a void directory as ChrootDir (like OpenSSH's /var/empty).
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3): "make"
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The make command uses the Makefiles produced by configure and compiles the
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ngIRCd daemon.
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4): "make install"
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Use "make install" to install the server and a sample configuration file on
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the local system. Normally, root privileges are necessary to complete this
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step. If there is already an older configuration file present, it won't be
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overwritten.
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This files will be installed by default:
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- /usr/local/sbin/ngircd: executable server
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- /usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf: sample configuration (if not already present)
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- /usr/local/share/doc/ngircd/: documentation
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II. Useful make-targets
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The Makefile produced by the configure-script contains always these useful
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targets:
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- clean: delete every product from the compiler/linker
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next step: -> make
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- distclean: the above plus erase all generated Makefiles
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next step: -> ./configure
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- maintainer-clean: erase all automatic generated files
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next step: -> ./autogen.sh
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III. Sample configuration file ngircd.conf
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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In the sample configuration file, there are comments beginning with "#" OR
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";" -- this is only for the better understanding of the file.
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The file is separated in four blocks: [Global], [Operator], [Server], and
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[Channel].
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In the [Global] section, there is the main configuration like the server
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name and the ports, on which the server should be listening. IRC operators
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of this server are defined in [Operator] blocks. [Server] is the section
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where server links are configured. And [Channel] blocks are used to
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configure pre-defined ("persistent") IRC channels.
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The meaning of the variables in the configuration file is explained in the
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"doc/sample-ngircd.conf", which is used as sample configuration file in
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/usr/local/etc after running "make install" (if you don't already have one)
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and in the "ngircd.conf" manual page.
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IV. Command line options
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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These parameters could be passed to the ngIRCd:
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-f, --config <file>
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The daemon uses the file <file> as configuration file rather than
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the standard configuration /usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf.
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-n, --nodaemon
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ngIRCd should be running as a foreground process.
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-p, --passive
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Server-links won't be automatically established.
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-t, --configtest
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Reads, validates and dumps the configuration file as interpreted
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by the server. Then exits.
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Use "--help" to see a short help text describing all available parameters
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the server understands, with "--version" the ngIRCd shows its version
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number. In both cases the server exits after the output.
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--
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$Id: INSTALL,v 1.19 2004/05/07 11:19:20 alex Exp $
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