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diff --git a/network/znc/README b/network/znc/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2c98d13845 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/znc/README @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +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. |