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From: eng-sc@jcu.edu.au (Simon Coggins)
Subject: Re: How to get ircd working?
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Organization: James Cook University
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Date:  5 May 96 01:11:44 GMT
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rob@voyager.ultradata.com (Robert Glover) writes:

>I installed FreeBSD 2.1-Current on an older 486 machine to run a mailing 
>list on (Majordomo), and now that that's working fairly well, I want to 
>add an irc server to it to host a related weekly chat.  I don't care 
>about connecting to other irc servers.

>The problem is that I can't get it to work, and can't find any decent 
>documentation.  It's the one available in the Ports collection 
>(ircd2.8.21 I think is the version).

>Has anybody here set it up successfully?  Help! :)

I haven't set up ircd2.8.21. But i have successfully compiled an am 
running ircu2.9.30b (ftp.wildstar.net /pub/users/ircd-dev/)

I haven't had any problems with it. Just edit the include/config.h file 
and type make :)

Regards
Simon

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