Can anyone help/make me a script to be up in /etc/init.d/ to start, stop, restart & reload unreal-ircd?? All the info needed is here (screenshot from the AdmIRC module for Webmin)
I installed Unreal-ircD 3.2.7 from source, and I'm running Ubuntu server 8.04.1 EDIT: I managed to get it working by editing the script /usr/share/unreal-ircd/unreal and changed the path to the binary EDIT2: Or maybe not Anyway, here is my bootscript stored in /etc/init.d/unrealircd Code: #!/bin/sh # Starts and stops UnrealIRCd case "$1" in 'start') su - unreal /usr/share/unreal-ircd/unreal start RETVAL=$? ;; 'stop') /usr/share/unreal-ircd/unreal stop RETVAL=$? ;; 'restart') /usr/share/unreal-ircd/unreal restart RETVAL=$? ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop | restart}" RETVAL=1 ;; esac exit $RETVAL but it doesn't work too well, it just seems to run the su - unreal command, it won't run any other commands until I type exit in the unreal shell :S PS. the user unreal has the home directory of /usr/share/unreal-ircd/, and has full ownership of all files related to unrealIRCd, if that helps. PPS the reason for the su - unreal is cause I don't want the daemon running as root
What happens when you leave it out? I think the server should be started as root - it might then switch to another user afterwards (don't now unreal-ircd, but that's how many other daemons do it).
ok not sure if you installed yours from an package or compile / config it fully yourself if you installed from an packaged than it maybe bit a tad diff from this ... this is what i used for mine due to i compile it myself hope its helps out a little ** UPDATE ** i re read your post change the path to the file and than try it see if thats works for you to see if it works or not make sure the server is stoped and have an IRC client trying to connect to your box IP and wait 4 mins if connected than its works if not arrr yell out PS ... i would of used the /home folder to install / run the IRCD from .. but thats just me heads up if its works nor not try this log into your irc user account <i used ircadmin> than check ur ~/bin folder to see if you got a file called "ircdchk" if so than you run this command crontab -e add in to the crontab window this line */2 * * * * /home/ircadmin/bin/ircdchk >/dev/null 2>&1 save it when your server boots it will check to see if the server is running every two mins if not it will start it and if the server was running and crashed or stoped it and didn't restart it , it will auto restart it for you as far as i can remember its being a while hope its helps and remember to do this as the IRCADMIN user or what you call it if you dont have the file called " ircdchk" do an search for it on your system and see if you can find it
