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1 adx 30 Hybrid INSTALL Document
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3 knight 31 $Id$
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5 michael 1049 Copyright (c) 1997-2010 IRCD-Hybrid Development Team
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7     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
8    
9     +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
10     | Note for those who don't bother reading docs: |
11     | |
12     | Reading INSTALL is now a must, as the old DPATH is now specified when |
13     | configure is run. |
14     | |
15     | - You now need to ./configure --prefix="/path/to/install/it" as a |
16     | minimum. Try ./configure --help or read this file for more info on |
17     | the possible options you can pass to configure. |
18     | |
19     | - Important: The old config format WILL NOT WORK. Please see point 7! |
20     +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
21    
22     ***** EFNET NOTE *****
23     You should run ./configure with the option '--enable-efnet' to tweak
24 michael 925 some options to be EFNet based. You must also use the example.efnet.conf
25 adx 30 instead of example.conf.
26     **********************
27    
28     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
29    
30     HOW TO BUILD
31    
32     As of hybrid-4, the distribution uses GNU autoconf instead of the old
33     Config script. You must run ./configure before you can (sanely) build
34     ircd-hybrid.
35    
36 michael 918 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
37 michael 920 this version. Other good reads are BUGS, etc/example.conf, and
38     README.FIRST.
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40     An example.conf for EFnet is in etc/ with the values "approved" as of
41     October 12th, 2003 called example.efnet.conf.
42    
43 michael 918 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
44 adx 30 Makefiles to match your system. In hybrid-7, the paths are now handled
45     with the --prefix option to configure.
46     /usr/local/ircd is the default if no prefix is specified.
47    
48     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ircd
49    
50     The script will determine whichever of the following is best for
51     your system, but you may (unsupported) force their usage with
52     undefined results:
53    
54     * --enable-kqueue - Use the superior kqueue(2) system call as
55 michael 925 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
56 adx 30 on FreeBSD 4.1 or higher.
57    
58     * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
59 michael 925 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
60 adx 30 option.
61    
62 michael 925 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
63 michael 555 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
64     later.
65    
66 adx 30 * --enable-rtsigio - Enable the superior Linux RealTime Signal I/O
67 michael 925 system. This is currently only available on 2.4 Linux kernel
68 adx 30 versions or later.
69    
70 michael 925 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
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72 michael 925 * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
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74 michael 925 Incidentally, the order of listing above is the order of auto-
75     detection in configure. So if you do have kqueue but wish to
76     enable select(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-select.
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78     * --enable-openssl - Enable the openssl dependent crypto functions.
79     This will allow CHALLENGE to work and encrypted links. On systems
80     where the configure script can automatically detect OpenSSL, this
81 michael 925 option is not necessary. If configure cannot find OpenSSL, you
82 adx 30 must specify a path with this option
83     (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
84    
85 michael 925
86 adx 30 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
87    
88 michael 925 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
89 adx 30 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
90 michael 925 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
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92 michael 925 * --enable-halfops - Enable halfops (%, mode +h) usage. Halfops
93     are similar to plain ops, but can't kick/deop plain ops. Halfops
94     may or may not kick/deop other halfops depending on if (+p) is
95     set. Halfops may not set (+/-p).
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97     * --enable-small-net - Tunes the server for smaller networks by
98     reducing the startup memory footprint. This should really only be
99     used for *small* networks, as this tends to be a performance hit
100     on larger networks.
101    
102 michael 925 * --enable-syslog=kill/squit/connect/users/oper, separated by
103     spaces, in quotes - Enables syslog logging, with events you specify
104     (none is okay too, and logs the most essential messages only.)
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106 michael 925 * --enable-syslog-facility=FACILITY - Check with your sysadmin to see
107     what this should be; by default it is LOG_LOCAL4. If you get it wrong
108     initially, no problem; just edit the value in include/setup.h.
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110     * --with-nicklen,
111 michael 925 --with-topiclen - Respectively, sets the maximum NICK length and
112     maximum TOPIC length. Note that this must be consistent across your
113     entire network. Defaults are 9 and 120, respectively.
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115 michael 925 * --disable-zlib - Build the ircd without ziplinks support.
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117    
118     3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
119    
120     4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules(1), and tools
121     in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
122    
123     (1) Unless the server was compiled without module support.
124    
125     5. If you wish to install the contrib modules, run 'make install' in the
126     contrib/ folder to compile and install the modules and help pages.
127    
128     6. If you wish to enable the user log, oper log, and failed oper log,
129     kill log, kline log and the gline log issue these commands at the
130     shell prompt (in the prefix directory).
131    
132     $ touch logs/userlog
133     $ touch logs/operlog
134     $ touch logs/foperlog
135     $ touch logs/kill
136     $ touch logs/kline
137     $ touch logs/gline
138    
139     Note: If you use different names in ircd.conf, you must 'touch'
140     their specific names.
141    
142     7. If you are upgrading from Hybrid 5 or Hybrid 6, the config files
143     have changed drastically...
144    
145     By default, the kline file is named kline.conf, the dline file is
146     named dline.conf, the xline file is called xline.conf, and the gline
147     file is called gline.conf.
148    
149     The nick resv file is named nresv.conf, channel resv file is named
150     cresv.conf.
151    
152     The oper motd file is named opers.motd.
153    
154     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
155    
156     HOW TO GET HELP
157    
158     - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
159     support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
160     fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
161     or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
162     incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
163     on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
164     the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
165    
166     - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
167     Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
168    
169     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
170    
171     NOTES
172    
173     The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
174     instructions:
175    
176     1. Change to the directory containing the core file
177    
178 michael 974 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
179 adx 30 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
180     directory)
181    
182     $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
183    
184    
185     3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
186    
187     4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
188     bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
189    
190     5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
191     safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
192     provides.

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