Installation instructions and Configuration files for Ircd-hybrid server on debian 11
Make sure you don't have any ircd server with netstat
sudo netstat -tulpn
If any irc program is listening on ports 6665-6669 remove it to make sure ircd-hybrid doesn't have any problems For installing ircd-hybrid just run:
sudo apt-get install ircd-hybrid
after it is done clone the ircd.conf file
For making a backup of the auto-generated conf file
mv /etc/ircd-hybrid/ircd.conf /etc/ircd-hybrid/ircd-original.config
now copy the file downloaded earlier to
cp /path/to/cloned/ircd.conf /etc/ircd-hybrid/ircd.conf
and edit it:
vim /etc/ircd-hybrid/ircd.conf
after you're done to acticate the server
systemctl enable ircd-hybrid
service start ircd-hybrid
edit what you need to edit in the file, to get the ip adresess run
ip a
to generate the password run
mkconfig