So you want to update your ircd

Tested 4x on pissircd and unrealircd, some servers with custom scripts installed, and confirmed with another dozen or so successful updates.

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• When I was attempting to upgrade using the built in unrealircd upgrader on a server that had 5.x, it failed with an error about calling a script directly despite using the correct command to do a version upgrade. Updating required a few extra steps when done manually, all from this page: https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Upgrading_from_5.x

• This was documented specifically for working around the built in updater to go from 5.x to 6.x while also doing a build to run pissircd.

• This upgrade method will also work for those running vanilla unrealircd and upgrading to pissircd. But we're making a backup of your unrealircd folder regardless.

• There's no risk in this upgrade method aside from a minute of downtime should you be unable to restart.

• The fun bit: You can build, upgrade and make all changes while your ircd is running, needing only to stop and restart when done.

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• Remove all of your previous build and backup folders (you won't be using the built in unrealircd upgrader, so clear out the old cruft.)
• Back up your unrealircd folder (cp -R unrealircd backup.unrealircd)
• git clone https://github.com/pissnet/pissircd
• cd pissircd && ./Config
• Hit enter on everything (defaults)
• make
• make install
• cd ..
• cd unrealircd
• cd conf
• nano unrealircd.conf
• Comment out the entire block for > log "ircd.log"
  • from log "ircd.log"
  • including "flags {"
  • to second "}"
  • (Needed for 6.x, otherwise your conf fails checks.)
• Add the following:

log {
        source {
            !debug;
            all;
        }
        destination {
            file "ircd.log" { maxsize 100M; }
        }
}

include "snomasks.default.conf";
loadmodule "cloak_md5";

• Save (Ctrl X)
• cd ..
• ./unrealircd stop
• ./unrealircd start

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You should be running piss60 successfully.

If not, delete 'unrealircd' ( rm -rf ~/unrealircd ) folder and rename 'backup.unrealircd' to 'unrealircd' ( mv backup.unrealircd unrealircd ) and then restart unrealircd ( cd unrealircd then ./unrealircd start )

Nothing will be lost except uptime.

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Updating once you have built from git is mostly the same. Some of the above steps are one time deals.

To update from 6.x to 6.x (patches, fixes, etc)

• Back up your unrealircd folder (cp -R unrealircd backup.unrealircd)
• rm -rf pissircd
• git clone https://github.com/pissnet/pissircd
• cd pissircd && ./Config
• Hit enter on everything (defaults)
• make && make install
• cd ..
• cd unrealircd
• ./unrealircd stop
• ./unrealircd start

and that should be it.