On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:54:39PM -0400, Neuman1812 wrote:

I Got ngircd to work, but I think I may have miss compiled or mis-installed it. I get this error

Can't read configuration "/usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf": Permission denied

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Error writing PID file (/var/run/ngircd/ngircd.pid): Permission denied

Check that the user ngirc is running as can * read /usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf * write /var/run/ngircd/ngircd.pid

and that something stupid like SELinux or AppArmor isn't getting in the way.

Something like

for U in `ps auxwww | awk '/ngirc/ {print $1}'` ; do grep ^$U /etc/passwd ; done

might give you the username of the user under which ngirc is running.

But it's probably not running -- in which case use the username you specified in config.

Then use chown to change the ownership of the files (a directory is a file) -- something like

chown ngirc-user /usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf chmod 640 /usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf # sets perms. chown -R ngirc-user /var/run/ngircd/ # recursively set chmod 755 /var/run/ngircd/ # make dir writeable by user

ngirc-user should be the username that nginx will run as.

Hi John.. Thanks. I know I shouldn't run with sudo, but I've been unable to run it any other way. I just dont know enough about permissions to change it. I think the problem started when I installed it. Using the 21.1 version I downloaded. I ran the .configure / make and then when it came to "make install" it wouldn't work "premission denied" So I had to use sudo make install. I realize this was the mistake..but Im not sure how to fix it.

Im running an ubuntu server which does have the package.. but its an older version.. 20. On 07/24/2014 10:05 PM, John Bleichert wrote:

On Jul 23, 2014, at 11:54 PM, Neuman1812 neuman1812@gmail.com wrote:

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I Got ngircd to work, but I think I may have miss compiled or mis-installed it. I get this error

Can't read configuration "/usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf": Permission denied

when attemping to /rehash the server. I was downloaded the 21.1 version but was only able to "make install" with "sudo make install" So now when I run it, I have to run the command

/ngircd21.1/$ sudo ngircd

Im really sorry if this is a basic question, Im still learning linux permissions...

FYI..the other error i get is

Error writing PID file (/var/run/ngircd/ngircd.pid): Permission denied

On Debian linux ngircd runs as the irc user:

johnnyb@boogie:~$ grep irc /etc/passwd irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/bin/sh

You’ll need to check the installed files and make sure the permissions are correct:

johnnyb@boogie:~$ ls -l /var/run/ngircd/ngircd.pid -rw------- 1 irc irc 5 Jul 22 19:07 /var/run/ngircd/ngircd.pid

Note that only the irc user can access that file in any way. The chmod man page explains the fields.

1. “sudo ngircd” is almost certainly NOT how you want to run the ngircd server - it should be started just like the other services on your machine are started.

2. Can ngircd be installed via your linux distro’s package system? Which distro are your running?

John

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