the config file in /etc/unrealircd can't be accessed by the default unrealircd user "unrealircd" _ _ _ ___________ _____ _ | | | | | |_ _| ___ \/ __ \ | | | | | |_ __ _ __ ___ __ _| | | | | |_/ /| / \/ __| | | | | | '_ \| '__/ _ \/ _` | | | | | / | | / _` | | |_| | | | | | | __/ (_| | |_| |_| |\ \ | \__/\ (_| | \___/|_| |_|_| \___|\__,_|_|\___/\_| \_| \____/\__,_| v3.2.3 using TRE 0.7.2 (GPL) using OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004 using zlib 1.2.2 * Loading IRCd configuration .. [error] Couldn't open "help.conf": Permission denied [error] Could not load config file help.conf [error] IRCd configuration failed to load [ !! ]
This works for me. Please provide the output of: - emerge --info - ls -lR - and the contents of /etc/conf.d/unrealircd
elfuhr root # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 8 2005, 09:33:18)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control /var/run/dspam /var/spool/dspam" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt emboss encode exif fam foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY elfuhr root # cat /etc/conf.d/unrealircd # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-irc/unrealircd/files/unrealircd.confd,v 1.4 2004/07/24 00:17:37 swegener Exp $ # user to run unrealircd as UNREALIRCD_USER="unrealircd" # extra options to pass to unrealircd ... # useful if you want to specify conf files other # than the default # # [-h servername] # [-p portnumber] # [-x loglevel] # [-t] (to enable debug output) UNREALIRCD_OPTS="" The ls -lR is not needed, because I changed the persmissions manually with chown unreadlircd *
Hm. The files in /etc/unrealircd should be chown'ed to unrealircd by the ebuild in pkg_postinst after creating the user unrealircd. this might fail if you're running nscd. Is this true for you?
I don't even know what nscd is (:
It's a daemon that caches host and username lookups. Before creating the user the ebuild checks if the user already exists. If it doesn't, the negative result is cached, the user is created and chown fails because the cached negative result makes it fail. But it'll only happen if nscd is running and you emerge unrealircd for the first time. /etc/init.d/nscd status shows the status of the daemon.
elfuhr root # /etc/init.d/nscd status * status: stopped
Was this a firs time install or do you already had unrealircd installed and used etc-update to merge to config files?
I already had an older version running. I have deleted the new unrealircd.conf manually and used etc-update to replace all other config files.
OK, that's the cause then. The new config files are owned by root and will still be owned by root when etc-update moves them into place. I'll think about a solution for the ebuild.
I just commited a fix for this to CVS. Thanks for reporting!
