X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=INSTALL;h=f71a0da69017ecad91190c104e4744f5e19c5de8;hb=d27196e334fbeba7ed4d4182f2b19fd4ab76619f;hp=58e5c38b87bf040866e065f59a5f3f370f4721cc;hpb=6bbc086760499cb829bf2055e67d4e52a3789794;p=ngircd-alex.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 58e5c38b..f71a0da6 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -46,6 +46,20 @@ files (using a distribution archive or CVS) is as following: 3) make 4) make install +(Please see details below!) + +Now the newly compiled executable "ngircd" is installed in its standard +location, /usr/local/sbin/. + +The next step is to configure and afterwards starting the daemon. Please +have a look at the ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5) manual pages for details +and all possible options. + +If no previous version of the configuration file exists (the standard name +is /usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf), a sample configuration file containing all +possible options will be installed there. You'll find its template in the +doc/ directory: sample-ngircd.conf. + 1): "autogen.sh" @@ -75,6 +89,11 @@ In addition, you can pass some command line options to "configure" to enable and/or disable some features of ngIRCd. All these options are shown using "./configure --help", too. +Compiling a static binary will avoid you the hassle of feeding a chroot dir +(if you want use the chroot feature). Just do something like: + CFLAGS=-static ./configure [--your-options ...] +Then you can use a void directory as ChrootDir (like OpenSSH's /var/empty). + 3): "make" @@ -148,7 +167,7 @@ These parameters could be passed to the ngIRCd: -p, --passive Server-links won't be automatically established. ---configtest +-t, --configtest Reads, validates and dumps the configuration file as interpreted by the server. Then exits. @@ -158,4 +177,4 @@ number. In both cases the server exits after the output. -- -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.17 2004/01/26 02:23:54 alex Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.20 2004/09/03 20:01:12 alex Exp $