> I am having troubles in completing my installation of irc on my sun machine. > When I try and run the daemon, I get the following error. > > ERROR: do not run ircd setuid root. Make it setuid a normal user. > > What does this mean, and how can I resolve this issue?
This means that you are trying to run ircd as root. This in a Bad Thing. It's generally recommended that you create an ircd user, install the server (and configuration file) into that user's home directory, and run it as that user. -- Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
