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author | David Spencer <baildon.research@googlemail.com> | 2016-12-03 20:58:34 +0000 |
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committer | David Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org> | 2016-12-04 19:28:52 +0000 |
commit | 1a12ab17a61ca31edd2801819767cda8d866ed19 (patch) | |
tree | 47a2fb7e28f25650ec60ba85ee08e4c8c69af04a /network/bitlbee | |
parent | 96ccc1e07135cfa8f13acfac14aac9cc0eabcd53 (diff) | |
download | slackbuilds-1a12ab17a61ca31edd2801819767cda8d866ed19.tar.gz |
network/bitlbee: Fixed README.
Signed-off-by: David Spencer <baildon.research@googlemail.com>
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diff --git a/network/bitlbee/README b/network/bitlbee/README index f4eb560944..37427564ce 100644 --- a/network/bitlbee/README +++ b/network/bitlbee/README @@ -5,45 +5,50 @@ and Jabber. The user's buddies appear as normal IRC users in a channel, and conversations use the private message facility of IRC. After your installation you will need to configure bitlbee. There are -two ways starting bitlbee: Either as a forked deamon (preferred), or +two ways starting bitlbee: Either as a forked daemon (preferred), or the old way of starting it through inetd (mostly deprecated these days). -Bitlbee now includes a standard rc.bitlbee. To have this start on boot-up, +Bitlbee now includes a standard rc.bitlbee. To have this start on bootup, add the following code to /etc/rc.d/rc.local for example -if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.bitlbee ]; then - /etc/rc.d/rc.bitlbee start -fi + if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.bitlbee ]; then + /etc/rc.d/rc.bitlbee start + fi If you choose to use inetd , you need to modify your /etc/inetd.conf so bitlbee will be started when /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd is called on bootup. Add the line below to your /etc/inetd.conf file: - 6667 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd - /usr/sbin/bitlbee + + 6667 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/bitlbee Restart inetd (/etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart). All that is left to do now is connect your irc client to the localhost. if you want to use libevent for events, instead of the default glib, -install libevent and run the script like this: EVENTS=libevent -./bitlbee.SlackBuild +install libevent and run the script like this: + + EVENTS=libevent ./bitlbee.SlackBuild OTR (Off the record) is not compiled by default. If you want bitlbee to compile with OTR capabilities, you'll need to install libotr from -Slackware and run the script as follows: OTR=yes ./bitlbee.SlackBuild +Slackware and run the script as follows: + + OTR=yes ./bitlbee.SlackBuild From version 3.2 bitlbee offers some form of skype support, even though this will not ever be part of bitlbee proper. please see the documentation in protocols/skype in the source package for information. You can run the -script as following: SKYPE=yes ./bitlbee.SlackBuild +script as following: + + SKYPE=yes ./bitlbee.SlackBuild NOTE: The default "bot"/bitlbee daemon is called 'root'. This is not the root user on your system. You can easily change it. Register and identify yourself first, and then: + rename root BitlBot (or whatever you want) NOTE: Since bitlbee now runs as a daemon instead of from inetd, bitlbee runs under its own user (UID/GID: 250). If you have older databases of bitlbee, you may want to change the permissions on the files in /var/lib/bitlbee. - |