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diff --git a/network/znc/README b/network/znc/README index 2c98d13845..7a352cbed2 100644 --- a/network/znc/README +++ b/network/znc/README @@ -3,24 +3,21 @@ 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 +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. +The SlackBuild file for ZNC includes support for OpenSSL connections +to IRC servers. If you do not wish to include OpenSSL support in ZNC, +simply run the build script like this: + WITH_SSL=no ./znc.SlackBuild -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. +IPv6 support is also enabled by default; to disable it, run the script as: + WITH_IPV6=no ./znc.SlackBuild + +This is intended to be run as a nonprivileged user - by default, the +build script uses "znc" as the user. If you wish to change it, e.g. +to use the "nobody" user, then run the script as follows: + ZNC_USER=nobody ./znc.SlackBuild + +See README.SBo for configuration information. |