Topic: IRCD rpm

[comomac]

Hi

I had searched the forum and the google and spent a whole day looking for IRCD for E-smith 5.6. Can anyone post a link or rpm please?

Thank you in advance

[Nathan Fowler]

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/7.2/ircd/ircd-2.10.3p3-fr1.i386.rpm

If this is the IRCD that you are looking for.

[comomac]

Nathan

I downloaded and installed the rpm file and I also edited the ircd.conf file. But I kept getting the problem.

E-Smith 5.6 install


[root@esmith root]# rpm -ivh ircd-2.10.3p3-fr1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:ircd                   ########################################### [100%]

~~~~the ircd.conf is edited~~~

[root@esmith root]# ircd
ircd: error: unable to find "/usr/sbin/iauth".
[root@esmith root]#


and the /usr/sbin/iauth file does exist.

Weird

[Nathan Fowler]

According to the rpm details, iauth should be provided.

Try a "find /|grep -i iauth" and see if it's in another directory...

[comomac]

This is what i get.
Anything that looks suspicious?

[root@esmith root]# find /|grep -i iauth
/var/ircd/etc/ircd/iauth.conf
/var/ircd/usr/sbin/iauth
/usr/sbin/iauth
/usr/share/doc/ircd-2.10.3p3/iauth-internals.txt
/usr/share/doc/ircd-2.10.3p3/iauth.conf.5
/usr/share/doc/ircd-2.10.3p3/iauth.8
/usr/share/man/man8/iauth.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/iauth.conf.5.gz
[root@esmith root]#

[Nathan Fowler]

According to that, /usr/sbin/iauth exists

Now check permissions on that, and ensure you don't have to be root to execute ircd.

[comomac]

Permission?

How can I do that?
What do I have to type or do?

Sorry, I am still new to penguin

[Nathan Fowler]

For the sake of simplicity, I'd just:

chmod +x  /usr/sbin/iauth

[comomac]

still got the same error :\

[root@esmith sbin]# chmod +x /usr/sbin/iauth
[root@esmith sbin]# ls -l iauth
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           29 Jul 13 12:29 iauth -> ../../var/ircd/usr/sbin/iauth
[root@esmith sbin]# ircd
ircd: error: unable to find "/usr/sbin/iauth".
[root@esmith sbin]#

[Nathan Fowler]

Looks like a bad symlink?

rm /usr/sbin/iauth
cp /var/ircd/usr/sbin/iauth /usr/sbin/iauth
chmod +x /usr/sbin/iauth

[comomac]

Hmm, still don't work
Could it be the rpm's fault?

[root@esmith sbin]# rm /usr/sbin/iauth
rm: remove /usr/sbin/iauth'? y
[root@esmith sbin]# cp /var/ircd/usr/sbin/iauth /usr/sbin/iauth
[root@esmith sbin]# chmod +x /usr/sbin/iauth
[root@esmith sbin]# ircd
ircd: error: unable to find "/usr/sbin/iauth".
[root@esmith sbin]# cd /usr/sbin/
[root@esmith sbin]# ls iauth
iauth
[root@esmith sbin]# ls -l iauth
-rwx--x--x    1 root     root        30444 Jul 13 13:51 iauth
[root@esmith sbin]# ./iauth
iauth 2.10.3p3
        +USE_POLL
[root@esmith sbin]# ircd
ircd: error: unable to find "/usr/sbin/iauth".
[root@esmith sbin]#

[Nathan Fowler]

I'm not sure, looks like ircd is stupid if you ask me.  See what command-line arguments are available for running ircd, and if you can force it not to see if iauth exists, or if you can supply a location.

[comomac]

Hmmm, this is getting no where

Is there an easier way to install an ircd?

What do u suggest? Or shall i stick and try to fix it?

[Nathan Fowler]

I don't know that I have any suggestions, you could try compiling from source.

[comomac]

I guess I could try that. Hmm, now I have to deal with e-smith which dont have compiler installed.