Information about configuring ngIRCd.

[ngircd-alex.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e19ea044efe467c018d495b2c5e67636715c90d6..f71a0da69017ecad91190c104e4744f5e19c5de8 100644 (file)
--- 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"
 
@@ -158,4 +177,4 @@ number. In both cases the server exits after the output.
 
 
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-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.18 2004/02/22 22:12:44 alex Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.20 2004/09/03 20:01:12 alex Exp $