From 7af4c277e722827fcddc79900c1a32398be4af4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 16:31:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation improvements. --- install.txt | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/install.txt b/install.txt index 44a5aa5..3164f98 100644 --- a/install.txt +++ b/install.txt @@ -19,14 +19,17 @@ and DoS vulnerabilities related to irker. == Installing irkerd == irker needs to run constantly, watching for TCP and UDP traffic on -port 6659. Install it accordingly. +port 6659. Install it accordingly. It has no config file; you can +just start it up with no arguments. If you want to see what it's +doing, give it command-line options -d 1 for sparse messages and -d 2 +to show all traffic with IRC servers. You should *not* make irker visible from outside the site firewall, as it can be used to spam IRC channels while masking the source address. You will need to have Jason Coombs's irc library where Python can see -it. See ; use version 3.0, not the -older code from SourceForge. +it. See ; use version 3.0 or later, +not the older code from SourceForge. The file org.catb.irkerd.plist is a Mac OS/X plist that can be installed to launch irkerd as a boot-time service on that system. -- 2.26.2