Bitlbee ???

[StarWolf]

aah the beauty of having a friend tell you how awesome something is only to wonder where the hell is it?


I follow these instructions for bitlbee

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bitlbee/Latest

. i ran quassel tried joining the bitlbee channel . i have tried reading the docs. so far pidgin which is pretty good looks like a better option>? i can't find the bitlbee program. did i miss something??

tarwolf@Powertoynix:~/bitlbee-1.2.4$ sudo bitlbee -i
bitlbee: option requires an argument -- 'i'
:localhost.localdomain NOTICE AUTH :BitlBee-IRCd initialized, please go on
ERROR :Warning: BitlBee is running with root privileges. Why?
^C
ERROR :Error: Fatal signal received: 2. That's probably a bug.

starwolf@Powertoynix:~/bitlbee-1.2.4$ sudo bitlbee -I
:localhost.localdomain NOTICE AUTH :BitlBee-IRCd initialized, please go on
ERROR :Warning: BitlBee is running with root privileges. Why?

^[[A^C
ERROR :Error: Fatal signal received: 2. That's probably a bug.

starwolf@Powertoynix:~/bitlbee-1.2.4$

no luck still

:localhost.localdomain NOTICE AUTH :BitlBee-IRCd initialized, please go on
ERROR :Warning: Permission problem: Can't read/write from/to `/var/lib/bitlbee/'.


off to bed lost 2 hours sleep already

[skunk]

Re: Bitlbee

The error message seems to be saying that you should NOT start the program with sudo

[StarWolf]

Re: Bitlbee

starwolf@Powertoynix:~/Documents$ bitlbee
:localhost.localdomain NOTICE AUTH :BitlBee-IRCd initialized, please go on
ERROR :Warning: Permission problem: Can't read/write from/to `/var/lib/bitlbee/'.

any ideas>?

[Telengard]

Re: Bitlbee

ERROR :Warning: Permission problem: Can't read/write from/to `/var/lib/bitlbee/'.

What are the ownership and permissions of the folder /var/lib/bitbee/?

[Telengard]

Re: Bitlbee

http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/446

BitlBee is automaticallly started when you install the package.

It looks like bitlbee is a daemon, so you should already have it running. Check to see if it isn't running like this:

ps -A | grep -i bitlbee

You should not have to start the program as root. According to the manpage I found, you can make it use a different directory by using the -d option:

-d path to user settings directory
BitlBee normally saves every user's settings in /var/lib/bitlbee/. If you want the settings to be stored somewhere else (for example, if you don't have write permissions in the default location), use this option.

For example, maybe this would work:

mkdir ~/bitlbee
bitlbee -d ~/bitlbee

I also found BitlBee User Guide which may help you.

[lmilano]

Re: Bitlbee

I think this pins it down
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bitlbee

See the bits about "root" in there ...