Installing unreal IRCd From Source

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Hey Guys,

First tutorial hgere from a Fedora Developer

Ok to begin we will need to download the Unreal IRCd Source to do this go to the website (unrealircd.com) and find a mirror to use. Use the WGET command to download the source.

[root@yourSite ~]# wget http://unrealircd.icedslash.com/Unreal3.2.7.tar.gz
--13:11:19--  http://www1.dnwt.net/unreal/Unreal3.2.3.tar.gz
Resolving www1.dnwt.net... failed: Name or service not known.
[root@x86-64 ~]# wget http://unrealircd.icedslash.com/Unreal3.2.7.tar.gz
--13:11:49--  http://unrealircd.icedslash.com/Unreal3.2.7.tar.gz
Resolving unrealircd.icedslash.com... 81.93.244.2
Connecting to unrealircd.icedslash.com|81.93.244.2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2801622 (2.7M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `Unreal3.2.7.tar.gz'

100%[=======================================>] 2,801,622   6.50M/s   in 0.4s

13:11:50 (6.50 MB/s) - `Unreal3.2.7.tar.gz' saved [2801622/2801622]

Once we have downloaded the source we will need to untar it use the tar command like so

[root@yourSite ~]# tar -zxvf Unreal3.2.7.tar-gz
Unreal3.2.7/extras/regex/moo/Makefile
Unreal3.2.7/extras/regex/configure.in
Unreal3.2.7/extras/regex/regex.h
Unreal3.2.7/extras/regex/CVS/
Unreal3.2.7/extras/regex/CVS/Tag
Unreal3.2.7/extras/regex/CVS/Root
Unreal3.2.7/extras/regex/CVS/Entries
Unreal3.2.7/extras/regex/CVS/Repository
...

now change direcory to the Unreal3.2.7 Direcory

[root@yourSite ~]# cd Unreal3.2.7

Now we need to configure our build. Type the following command

[root@yourSite ~]# ./Config

Once you run that command you will be prompted with some options. If you are new to Linux or do not understand the command leave it as default.

Once you see the following you may continue. If not correct the errors displayed

 _______________________________________________________________________
|                                                                       |
|                    UnrealIRCd Compile-Time Config                     |
|_______________________________________________________________________|
|_______________________________________________________________________|
|                                                                       |
| Now all you have to do is type 'make' and let it compile. When that's |
| done, you will receive other instructions on what to do next.         |
|                                                                       |
|_______________________________________________________________________|
|_______________________________________________________________________|
|                        - The UnrealIRCd Team -                        |
|                                                                       |
| * Stskeeps  stskeeps@unrealircd.com                                   |
| * codemastr codemastr@unrealircd.com                                  |
| * Syzop     syzop@unrealircd.com                                      |
|_______________________________________________________________________|

The next command will compile our build while it runs edit the configuration file found in docs/example.conf and save it to the Unreal3.2.7 directory as unrealircd.conf

[root@yourSite ~]# make

while this command runs you will see gcc apear a few times this is compiling each file required by the ircd

Once you have done this and setup your configuration file you may run the IRCd by typing the following command

[root@yourSite ~]# ./unreal start

Your IRCd should boot and will run on the port you configures (Default 6667)

To stop the IRCd Substitute start with stop and your IRC will shutdown.

Thanks for reading hope Ive helped

[Tor]

Does this use a lot of resources?

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Not really Unless you go over 1,000 users