How to set up bitlbee?

[daigo]

Hey, I got a brand new MacBook Pro and I've never used Mac before.

I'm a BSD user, and for Bitlbee I use inetd but I hear Mac uses xinetd and I have never used xinetd before.

I have xinetd installed on my Mac, but I have no idea where all the config files are because all the directories are different.

I got Bitlbee installed through Ports and I edited the config in /opt/local/etc/bitlbee.conf and I added a file for Bitlbee's xinetd.d in /etc/xinetd.d/ircd:

service ircd
{
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = bitlbee
        server          = /opt/local/sbin/bitlbee
        port            = 6668
        disable         = no
        bind            = localhost
}

But when I fire up my IRC client and try to connect to localhost or 127.0.0.1, it refuses my connection.

Any suggestions?

 

[Johnathan]

Hey, I got a brand new MacBook Pro and I've never used Mac before.

I'm a BSD user, and for Bitlbee I use inetd but I hear Mac uses xinetd and I have never used xinetd before.

I have xinetd installed on my Mac, but I have no idea where all the config files are because all the directories are different.

I got Bitlbee installed through Ports and I edited the config in /opt/local/etc/bitlbee.conf and I added a file for Bitlbee's xinetd.d in /etc/xinetd.d/ircd:

service ircd
{
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = bitlbee
        server          = /opt/local/sbin/bitlbee
        port            = 6668
        disable         = no
        bind            = localhost
}

But when I fire up my IRC client and try to connect to localhost or 127.0.0.1, it refuses my connection.

Any suggestions?

are you sure you have xinetd?

xinetd was unincluded starting with Leopard... Apple prefers to use this thing called launchd.. to make bitlbee use launchd you need to convert that xinetd bit above into plist format, just use /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/telnetd.plist as a template or something.. or review the launchd.plist manpage. after you do that, you can use launchctl to start the daemon.

-j

 

[daigo]

With the template, how do I add stuff in like protocol and bind and the other options not there?

 

[Johnathan]

With the template, how do I add stuff in like protocol and bind and the other options not there?

try this?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd  
"> 
<plist version="1.0"> 
<dict> 
        <key>Label</key> 
        <string>org.bitlbee.bitlbee</string> 
        <key>OnDemand</key> 
        <true/> 
        <key>ProgramArguments</key> 
        <array> 
                <string>/opt/local/sbin/bitlbee</string> 
        </array> 
        <key>ServiceDescription</key> 
        <string>bitlbee irc-im proxy</string> 
        <key>Sockets</key> 
        <dict> 
                <key>Listener</key> 
                <dict> 
                        <key>SockFamily</key> 
                        <string>IPv4</string> 
                        <key>SockProtocol</key> 
                        <string>TCP</string> 
                        <key>SockServiceName</key> 
                        <string>6667</string> 
                        <key>SockType</key> 
                        <string>stream</string> 
                </dict> 
        </dict> 
        <key>inetdCompatibility</key> 
        <dict> 
                <key>Wait</key> 
                <false/> 
        </dict> 
        <key>UserName</key> 
        <string>bitlbee</string> 
</dict> 
</plist>

 

[daigo]

Alright, so I made a file named ircd in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ and put all of that in there. I rebooted because I have no idea how to work launchd, but it still won't work. Is there anything else I have to do?

Here is my bitlbee config:

RunMode = inetd
User = bitlbee
AuthMode = Open
OperPassword = passwordhere
ConfigDir = /var/lib/bitlbee

 

[Johnathan]

Alright, so I made a file named ircd in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ and put all of that in there. I rebooted because I have no idea how to work launchd, but it still won't work. Is there anything else I have to do?

Here is my bitlbee config:

RunMode = inetd
User = bitlbee
AuthMode = Open
OperPassword = passwordhere
ConfigDir = /var/lib/bitlbee

the ~/Library/LaunchAgents is more for cronjob type stuff, this is a daemon, so save all the plist information to a file called

/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.bitlbee.bitlbee.plist

and then run it by typing

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.bitlbee.bitlbee.plist

or you could just reboot, this should get loaded on reboot.

-j