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1 Hybrid INSTALL Document
2
3 $Id$
4
5 Copyright (c) 1997-2005 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 RELNOTES 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 include/setup.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-rtsigio - Enable the superior Linux RealTime Signal I/O
63 system. This is currently only available on 2.4 Linux kernel
64 versions or later.
65
66 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
67
68 * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
69
70 * --enable-clobber - Don't preserve the old binaries on make install
71
72 Incidentally, the order of listing above is the order of auto-
73 detection in configure. So if you do have kqueue but wish to
74 enable select(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-select.
75
76 * --enable-openssl - Enable the openssl dependent crypto functions.
77 This will allow CHALLENGE to work and encrypted links. On systems
78 where the configure script can automatically detect OpenSSL, this
79 option is not necessary. If configure cannot find OpenSSL, you
80 must specify a path with this option
81 (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
82
83 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
84
85 * --disable-shared-modules - Disable module support. This option is
86 more secure, but reduces a lot of the flexibility in hybrid-7.
87 This may need to be used on some systems without a working
88 dlopen/dlsym.
89
90 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
91 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
92 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
93
94 * --enable-efence - Enable ElectricFence which is a memory debugger.
95
96 * --enable-profile - Enable profiling support in ircd-hybrid.
97
98 * --disable-block-alloc - Disable block allocations (only works with
99 ElectricFence).
100
101 * --enable-halfops - Enable halfops (%, mode +h) usage. Halfops
102 are similar to plain ops, but can't kick/deop plain ops. Halfops
103 may or may not kick/deop other halfops depending on if (+p) is
104 set. Halfops may not set (+/-p).
105
106 * --enable-small-net - Tunes the server for smaller networks by
107 reducing the startup memory footprint. This should really only be
108 used for *small* networks, as this tends to be a performance hit
109 on larger networks.
110
111 * --enable-syslog=kill/squit/connect/users/oper, separated by
112 spaces, in quotes - Enables syslog logging, with events you specify
113 (none is okay too, and logs the most essential messages only.)
114
115 * --enable-syslog-facility=FACILITY - Check with your sysadmin to see
116 what this should be; by default it is LOG_LOCAL4. If you get it wrong
117 initially, no problem; just edit the value in include/setup.h.
118
119 * --with-nicklen,
120 --with-topiclen - Respectively, sets the maximum NICK length and
121 maximum TOPIC length. Note that this must be consistent across your
122 entire network. Defaults are 9 and 120, respectively.
123
124 * --with-maxconn - Sets the maximum number of connections the ircd
125 can support. Note that this also twiddles the HARD_FDLIMIT.
126 If HARD_FDLIMIT ends up being larger that FD_SETSIZE when using
127 select() for your I/O loop, s_bsd_select.c will refuse to compile
128 (and tell you to use poll instead). Take this error's advice and
129 use --enable-poll or something a bit more efficient. You'll be
130 happier at the end of the day for it.
131
132 * --disable-zlib - Build the ircd without ziplinks support.
133
134 * --disable-gline-voting - This is good for small networks or where
135 G-Line voting is not necessary. Please understand that by disabling
136 this, it will allow any operator with G-Line permissions to G-Line
137 someone without requiring the approval of 2 other operators. However,
138 it is useful if you use proxy scanners or services that do G-Lines.
139
140 3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
141
142 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules(1), and tools
143 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
144
145 (1) Unless the server was compiled without module support.
146
147 5. If you wish to install the contrib modules, run 'make install' in the
148 contrib/ folder to compile and install the modules and help pages.
149
150 6. If you wish to enable the user log, oper log, and failed oper log,
151 kill log, kline log and the gline log issue these commands at the
152 shell prompt (in the prefix directory).
153
154 $ touch logs/userlog
155 $ touch logs/operlog
156 $ touch logs/foperlog
157 $ touch logs/kill
158 $ touch logs/kline
159 $ touch logs/gline
160
161 Note: If you use different names in ircd.conf, you must 'touch'
162 their specific names.
163
164 7. If you are upgrading from Hybrid 5 or Hybrid 6, the config files
165 have changed drastically...
166
167 By default, the kline file is named kline.conf, the dline file is
168 named dline.conf, the xline file is called xline.conf, and the gline
169 file is called gline.conf.
170
171 The nick resv file is named nresv.conf, channel resv file is named
172 cresv.conf.
173
174 The oper motd file is named opers.motd.
175
176 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
177
178 HOW TO GET HELP
179
180 - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
181 support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
182 fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
183 or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
184 incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
185 on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
186 the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
187
188 - http://forum.ircd-hybrid.org/
189 We decided to create a phpBB-like forum about ircd-hybrid, where you
190 can get help from coders and admins, post your suggestions, modules etc.
191
192 - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
193 Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
194
195 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
196
197 NOTES
198
199 The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
200 instructions:
201
202 1. Change to the directory containing the core file
203
204 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified Hybrid-7.1
205 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
206 directory)
207
208 $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
209
210
211 3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
212
213 4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
214 bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
215
216 5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
217 safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
218 provides.

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