What is psyBNC?
"psyBNC is an easy-to-use, multi-user, permanent IRC-Bouncer with many features. Some of its features include symmetric ciphering of talk and connections (Blowfish and IDEA), the possibility of linking multiple bouncers to an internal network including a shared partyline, vhost- and relay support to connected bouncers and an extensive online help system. Many other helpful functions are included. It compiles on Linux, FreeBSD, SunOs and Solaris.
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In this tutorial you will only learn how to setup/install and configure your psyBNC on a shell of ShellHosting.
When you login into a ShellHosting Shell Account, You will see a list of commands telling you to install different things one of them is "setup-psybnc"
This commands runs the installation process for you and you don’t need to download psyBCN separately compile it configure it and than make it for you.
Following are the steps you need to run a psyBNC.
First of all you need to type setup-psybnc command in command prompt of shell.
[user@rising /home/user]$ setup-psybnc
(this will compile the psybnc)
Now It will ask about some important information required.
Country Name [DE]: (you can type anything here consisting of 2 alphabets e.g. UK Or Leave empty)
State/Province [Somewhere]: (Anything here you like to OR you can leave it blank)
Locality Name (eg, city) []: (Anything here you like to OR you can leave it blank)
Organization Name (eg, company) [tCl]: (Anything here you like to OR you can leave it blank)
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) [psyBNC]: (Anything here you like to OR you can leave it blank)
Common Name (Full domain of your server) []: (Anything here you like to OR you can leave it blank)
Now It will ask about the most important thing that is PORT required for psyBNC
Please enter the port you wish to run your psyBNC with: (numeric random 4 or 5 digit / e.g. 5346)
After pressing Enter it will tell you that your psybnc running is under the specified port you can also check if your psybnc is running or not by the command in shell "ps x" if you see a process running named ./psybnc than your psybnc is running else you have to specify a different port in the psybnc.conf which is located in the psybnc folder. To edit the port you need to go to the psybnc directory with the command "cd psybnc" and than edit the psybnc.conf by "pico psybnc.conf" or "ee psybnc.conf". Change the port which is given in the end of the first line, save the file and exit, if you are editing with pico command type control + x to exit and save. and if you are editing with ee command you need to press "ESC" and than "A" and again "A" to save and exit and execute this command ./psybnc in the shell once you are done with editing the psybnc.conf file. it will tell you that your psybnc is running under the port you specified.
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