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BitlBee is an IRC instant messaging gateway licensed under the terms of
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the GPL. It communicates with the end user via the IRC protocol whilst
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interacting with popular chat networks such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo,
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and Jabber. The user's buddies appear as normal IRC users in a channel,
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and conversations use the private message facility of IRC.
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After your installation you will need to configure bitlbee. There are
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two ways starting bitlbee: Either as a forked daemon (preferred), or
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the old way of starting it through inetd (mostly deprecated these days).
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Bitlbee now includes a standard rc.bitlbee. To have this start on bootup,
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add the following code to /etc/rc.d/rc.local for example
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if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.bitlbee ]; then
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/etc/rc.d/rc.bitlbee start
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fi
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If you choose to use inetd , you need to modify your /etc/inetd.conf
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so bitlbee will be started when /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd is called on bootup.
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Add the line below to your /etc/inetd.conf file:
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6667 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/bitlbee
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Restart inetd (/etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart). All that is left to do now
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is connect your irc client to the localhost.
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OTR (Off the record) is not compiled by default. If you want bitlbee
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to compile with OTR capabilities, you'll need to install libotr from
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Slackware and run the script as follows:
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OTR=yes ./bitlbee.SlackBuild
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From version 3.2 bitlbee offers some form of skype support, even though
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this will not ever be part of bitlbee proper. Please see the documentation
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in protocols/skype in the source package for information. You can run the
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script as following:
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SKYPE=yes ./bitlbee.SlackBuild
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NOTE: The default "bot"/bitlbee daemon is called 'root'. This is not
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the root user on your system. You can easily change it. Register and
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identify yourself first, and then:
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rename root BitlBot (or whatever you want)
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NOTE: Since bitlbee now runs as a daemon instead of from inetd, bitlbee
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runs under its own user (UID/GID: 250). If you have older databases
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of bitlbee, you may want to change the permissions on the files in
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/var/lib/bitlbee.
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