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diff --git a/network/elemental-ircd/README b/network/elemental-ircd/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2603265d13 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/elemental-ircd/README @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Elemental-IRCd is a high performance, lightweight, and scalable IRC daemon. It +is a fork of the now-defunct ShadowIRCD and seeks to continue in the direction +ShadowIRCD was headed. + +An `/etc/rc.d/rc.elemental-ircd` script is supplied which supports +start/stop/restart/reload, which you can call from your rc.local: + + # /etc/rc.d/rc.local + # ================== + if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.elemental-ircd ]; then + /etc/rc.d/rc.elemental-ircd start + fi + +The `reload` parameter will make an already running ircd reload its +configuration file. + +The elemental-ircd will refuse to run as root, so you need to create a user +for it: + groupadd -g 315 elemental-ircd + useradd -u 315 -g 315 -d /var/lib/elemental-ircd elemental-ircd +By default we name the user `elemental-ircd` with UID 315, and put it in the +`elemental-ircd` group (GID 315). If you want to give it a different name, uid +or gid, you can give + IRCD_UNAME=elemental-ircd + IRCD_UID=315 + IRCD_GID=315 +different values when running the slackbuild script. + +Before starting the ircd, you'll need to create a configuration file for it. +It should be named `/etc/elemental-ircd/ircd.conf`. In that directory there +is already an `example.conf` and a `reference.conf`. + +Note: elemental-ircd comes with a binary called `/usr/bin/mkpasswd`, which is +used to create passwords for o-lines, but it creates a conflict with +`/usr/bin/mkpasswd` from expect, so the `mkpasswd` supplied by elemental-ircd +is renamed to `ircd-mkpasswd` by the SlackBuild script. |