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# Content
1 Hybrid INSTALL Document
2
3 $Id$
4
5 Copyright (c) 1997-2007 IRCD-Hybrid Development Team
6
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 some options to be EFNet based. You must also use the example.efnet.conf
25 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 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
37 this version. Other good reads are doc/whats-new.txt, BUGS,
38 etc/example.conf, and README.FIRST.
39
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 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
44 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 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
56 on FreeBSD 4.1 or higher.
57
58 * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
59 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
60 option.
61
62 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
63 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
64 later.
65
66 * --enable-rtsigio - Enable the superior Linux RealTime Signal I/O
67 system. This is currently only available on 2.4 Linux kernel
68 versions or later.
69
70 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
71
72 * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
73
74 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.
77
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 option is not necessary. If configure cannot find OpenSSL, you
82 must specify a path with this option
83 (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
84
85 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
86
87 * --disable-shared-modules - Disable module support. This option is
88 more secure, but reduces a lot of the flexibility in hybrid-7.
89 This may need to be used on some systems without a working
90 dlopen/dlsym.
91
92 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
93 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
94 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
95
96 * --enable-halfops - Enable halfops (%, mode +h) usage. Halfops
97 are similar to plain ops, but can't kick/deop plain ops. Halfops
98 may or may not kick/deop other halfops depending on if (+p) is
99 set. Halfops may not set (+/-p).
100
101 * --enable-small-net - Tunes the server for smaller networks by
102 reducing the startup memory footprint. This should really only be
103 used for *small* networks, as this tends to be a performance hit
104 on larger networks.
105
106 * --enable-syslog=kill/squit/connect/users/oper, separated by
107 spaces, in quotes - Enables syslog logging, with events you specify
108 (none is okay too, and logs the most essential messages only.)
109
110 * --enable-syslog-facility=FACILITY - Check with your sysadmin to see
111 what this should be; by default it is LOG_LOCAL4. If you get it wrong
112 initially, no problem; just edit the value in include/setup.h.
113
114 * --with-nicklen,
115 --with-topiclen - Respectively, sets the maximum NICK length and
116 maximum TOPIC length. Note that this must be consistent across your
117 entire network. Defaults are 9 and 120, respectively.
118
119 * --disable-zlib - Build the ircd without ziplinks support.
120
121 * --disable-gline-voting - This is good for small networks or where
122 G-Line voting is not necessary. Please understand that by disabling
123 this, it will allow any operator with G-Line permissions to G-Line
124 someone without requiring the approval of 2 other operators. However,
125 it is useful if you use proxy scanners or services that do G-Lines.
126
127 3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
128
129 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules(1), and tools
130 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
131
132 (1) Unless the server was compiled without module support.
133
134 5. If you wish to install the contrib modules, run 'make install' in the
135 contrib/ folder to compile and install the modules and help pages.
136
137 6. If you wish to enable the user log, oper log, and failed oper log,
138 kill log, kline log and the gline log issue these commands at the
139 shell prompt (in the prefix directory).
140
141 $ touch logs/userlog
142 $ touch logs/operlog
143 $ touch logs/foperlog
144 $ touch logs/kill
145 $ touch logs/kline
146 $ touch logs/gline
147
148 Note: If you use different names in ircd.conf, you must 'touch'
149 their specific names.
150
151 7. If you are upgrading from Hybrid 5 or Hybrid 6, the config files
152 have changed drastically...
153
154 By default, the kline file is named kline.conf, the dline file is
155 named dline.conf, the xline file is called xline.conf, and the gline
156 file is called gline.conf.
157
158 The nick resv file is named nresv.conf, channel resv file is named
159 cresv.conf.
160
161 The oper motd file is named opers.motd.
162
163 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
164
165 HOW TO GET HELP
166
167 - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
168 support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
169 fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
170 or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
171 incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
172 on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
173 the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
174
175 - http://forum.ircd-hybrid.org/
176 We decided to create a phpBB-like forum about ircd-hybrid, where you
177 can get help from coders and admins, post your suggestions, modules etc.
178
179 - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
180 Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
181
182 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
183
184 NOTES
185
186 The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
187 instructions:
188
189 1. Change to the directory containing the core file
190
191 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified Hybrid-7.2
192 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
193 directory)
194
195 $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
196
197
198 3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
199
200 4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
201 bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
202
203 5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
204 safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
205 provides.

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