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-BitlBee is an IRC instant messaging gateway licensed under the terms of the
-GPL. It communicates with the end user via the IRC protocol whilst interacting
-with popular chat networks such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber. The user's
-buddies appear as normal IRC users in a channel, and conversations use the
-private message facility of IRC.
+BitlBee is an IRC instant messaging gateway licensed under the terms of
+the GPL. It communicates with the end user via the IRC protocol whilst
+interacting with popular chat networks such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo,
+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 the old way of starting
-it through inetd (mostly deprecated these days).
+After your installation you will need to configure bitlbee. There are
+two ways starting bitlbee: Either as a forked deamon (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, add
-the following code to /etc/rc.d/rc.local for example
+Bitlbee now includes a standard rc.bitlbee. To have this start on boot-up,
+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 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
+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
-Restart inetd (/etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart). All that is left to do now is
-connect your irc client to the localhost.
+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
+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
-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
+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
-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: 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.
+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.