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+ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer
+
+ZNC will remain connected to an IPv4 or IPv6 IRC server even while you
+are offline. You can reattach your client at a later time and catch up
+with what happened while you were gone via the history buffer. You can
+add additional users under one running process: useful for public shells
+that limit background processes. ZNC also supports the dynamic loading
+of C++ and Perl modules.
+
+Once the package is installed, you can interactivly create your znc.conf 
+using the following command:
+	/usr/bin/znc --makeconf --datadir /etc/znc
+Once you have answered all the questions, your znc.conf file will be located
+at /etc/znc/configs/znc.conf.
+
+It is recommended that you do *NOT* run znc as 'root' but rather as a 
+more benign user such as 'nobody'. It should be noted that you can
+only run as a non-root user if you choose a listening port higher than
+1024. The following is necessary to allow znc to be run as the 'nobody'
+user; it only needs to be run once:
+	chown -R nobody:nobody /etc/znc
+To actually execute ZNC as the 'nobody' user, use the following command:
+	su - nobody -c '/usr/bin/znc --datadir /etc/znc'
+By default, ZNC will look for its configuration file in ~/.znc.  If you 
+used the '--datadir' option when creating the znc.conf file, it must also 
+be used when starting ZNC.