New "chroot" feature (from Benjamin Pineau), introducing new configuration

[ngircd-alex.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 58e5c38b87bf040866e065f59a5f3f370f4721cc..6df155fdd784e6bc6754d6bbeaf37848a81bcdbf 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ 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.
 
 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"
 
 
 3): "make"
 


@@ -148,7 +153,7 @@ These parameters could be passed to the ngIRCd:
 -p, --passive
        Server-links won't be automatically established.
 
 -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.
 
        Reads, validates and dumps the configuration file as interpreted
        by the server. Then exits.
 


@@ -158,4 +163,4 @@ 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 1.19 2004/05/07 11:19:20 alex Exp $