FreeBSD 4.8

[ratman3]

so far using the suggestion in this thread It hasn't worked Even the script didn't work

Guus. I tried to edit inetd.conf and that didn't work either.

[SirDice]

Originally posted here by ratman3
so far using the suggestion in this thread It hasn't worked Even the script didn't work

Guus. I tried to edit inetd.conf and that didn't work either.

Any error messages?

[ratman3]

Originally posted here by SirDice


Any error messages?

nope, just boot, login and type netstat -an and no port 6667 open

[Guus]

the script SirDice suggested has to be runnable by root. Try doing

chown root:wheel /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ircd.sh 
chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ircd.sh

afterwards, doing

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ircd.sh start

should start the deamon.

[ratman3]

Originally posted here by sweet_angel


Ratman have you try modify /etc/rc.local or /usr/local/etc/rc.d and then /etc/rc.conf.....or maybe I missunderstood your question?.

cheerss

what line to I put in rc.conf to get it to look at rc.local? I think it's not looking in there and that's why it won't start.

[Guus]

/usr/local/etc/rc.d is a directory, not a file, so editing that makes no sense.

All .sh script in that dir, runnable by root and having a /start/stop/* interface like SirDice showed are run after each boot. You won't have to make changes in /etc/rc.conf for that.

Look at section 6.5 of the FreeBSD handbook for more information.

[neel]

Well... a bit of topic :
I stay with my point that an os's security bottleneck is still the admin. You can make any os as secure as you want, wether it's unix or windows or menuetos. It's true some os's have better potential, but if you know **** about bsd, you won't be able to ever make it real secure. O personally love openbsd though because of it's beautifull exploit history (insider joke ?).

[doc crontab]

"I was wondering about something and since you have FreeBSD then I will ask
you or anyone else who reads my post, What do you think are the advantages of
FreeBSD?"

As others have said it's advantages are quality& sticking power vs linux distros
who cut support after say only a year in order to get people to upgrade and
pony up money for a new version of there software which may or may
not be quality. When I buy my bsd cd's and install the software I am not
greeted immediatly with problems like "broken supermount" or worse a serious
denial of service security hole in the Kernel my apps always run
correctly they don't coredump or crash badly.

[SirDice]

As for finding the problem with ircd try the following. Open up 2 consoles (or xterm, gnome-terminals or whatever). In one of them run tail -f /var/log/messages and keep an eye on this. On the other terminal/console logon as root (or use su) then:
# su ircd
this will switch user to ircd. Use this to check if the account is properly setup. If it complains about the account not existing run this:
# pw useradd ircd -d /nonexistant -s /sbin/nologin
This will create a useraccount ircd that cannot logon and has no homedir.
Then try to su ircd again. After that you can try to start ircd:
# ircd <- start ircd.
Then check the /var/log/messages on the other terminal/console to see if there are any problems. Common problems would be
a) user ircd is not able to write it's log to /var/log
b) user ircd is not able to create a pid file in /var/run

If it starts kill it again and (as root) run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ircd.sh start

[smirc]

I was wondering about something and since you have FreeBSD then I will ask you or anyone else who reads my post, What do you think are the advantages of FreeBSD over Mandrake or Redhat? I know that they are all really great and all use unix but I just was wondering what your input on this would be. Thanks to anyone that replies to this post.

Performance. If you want performance and security...there's always OpenBSD.