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diff --git a/network/bitlbee/README b/network/bitlbee/README index 83c4387f6f..80aa8a0fa6 100644 --- a/network/bitlbee/README +++ b/network/bitlbee/README @@ -4,7 +4,18 @@ with popular chat networks such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber. The user's buddies appear as normal IRC users in a channel, and conversations use the private message facility of IRC. -After the installation, you need to modify your /etc/inetd.conf so bitlbee will +After your installation you will need to configure bitlbee. There are two ways +starting bitlbee: Either as a forked deamon (preferred), or the old way of starting +it through inetd (mostly deprecated these days). + +Bitlbee now includes a standard rc.bitlbee. To have this start on boot-up, add +the following code to /etc/rc.d/rc.local for example + +if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.bitlbee ]; then + /etc/rc.d/rc.bitlbee start +fi + +If you choose to use inetd , you need to modify your /etc/inetd.conf so bitlbee will be started when /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd is called on bootup. Add the line below to your /etc/inetd.conf file: 6667 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/bitlbee @@ -12,12 +23,6 @@ your /etc/inetd.conf file: Restart inetd (/etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart). All that is left to do now is connect your irc client to the localhost. -NOTE: The default "bot"/bitlbee daemon is called 'root'. This is not the root -user on your system. You can easily change it. Register and identify yourself -first, and then: - rename root BitlBot - (or whatever you want) - if you want to use libevent for events, instead of the default glib, install libevent and run the script like this: EVENTS=libevent ./bitlbee.SlackBuild @@ -25,3 +30,13 @@ OTR (Off the record) is not compiled by default. If you want bitlbee to compile with OTR capabilities, you'll need to install libotr from Slackware and run the script as follows: OTR=yes ./bitlbee.SlackBuild +NOTE: The default "bot"/bitlbee daemon is called 'root'. This is not the root +user on your system. You can easily change it. Register and identify yourself +first, and then: + rename root BitlBot + (or whatever you want) + +NOTE: Since bitlbee now runs as a daemon instead of from inetd, bitlbee runs +under its own user (UID/GID: 250). If you have older databases of bitlbee, you +may want to change the permissions on the files in /var/lib/bitlbee. + |