Removed "U" unsignet suffix: caused problems with older compilers and is

[ngircd-alex.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 58e5c38b87bf040866e065f59a5f3f370f4721cc..0c5be755214abac93f035b480ae93cc994ae7ef5 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -14,6 +14,18 @@
 I. Upgrade Information
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+Differences to version 0.9.x
+
+- The option of the configure script to enable support for Zeroconf/Bonjour/
+  Rendezvous/WhateverItIsNamedToday has been renamed:
+    --with-rendezvous  ->  --with-zeroconf
+
+Differences to version 0.8.x
+
+- The maximum length of passwords has been raised to 20 characters (instead
+  of 8 characters). If your passwords are longer than 8 characters then they
+  are cut at an other position now.
+
 Differences to version 0.6.x
 
 - Some options of the configure script have been renamed:
@@ -46,6 +58,20 @@ 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 +101,11 @@ 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 +179,7 @@ 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 +189,4 @@ number. In both cases the server exits after the output.
 
 
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-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.17 2004/01/26 02:23:54 alex Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.22 2005/07/08 16:23:00 alex Exp $