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To: Studded <Studded@dal.net>
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On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Studded wrote:

> >if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/ircd ]; then
> >	echo "Starting the IRC Server..."
	echo '/usr/local/sbin/ircd' | su -fm ircuser
> >fi


> 	The main problem with that is that ircd doesn't like to be (and
> probably shouldn't be) run as root.  Depending on what version of ircd

Try the above mod.

Andrew