Hello! The init.d script of net-irc/ircservices-5.0.59 is not working. But its easy to fix. Just change --chuid ircservices to --user ircservices --group ircservices! See here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-514232-highlight-.html
No, --chuid is correct, as we do not want to run ircservices as root. It was a bug in the ebuild, resulting in bad permission. Make sure your permissions are: drwxr-x--- 2 root ircservices 48 Nov 7 21:59 /etc/ircservices -rw-r----- 1 root ircservices 37058 Nov 7 21:59 /etc/ircservices/ircservices.conf -rw-r----- 1 root ircservices 57677 Nov 7 21:59 /etc/ircservices/modules.conf drwxr-x--- 2 ircservices ircservices 94 Nov 7 21:59 /var/lib/ircservices
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