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As I am seeing some possible misinformation on the subject, I would like to point out that you can change what user the start-stop-daemon runs the binary as with the –chuid switch. If you are interestied I could upload an entire script for others to use. Just a personal preference, but I like ...

Thanks for pointing out that unreal was just a script. I modified to point to the binary. The real problem was that the newly created init.d script was not executable so I fixed that and works like a charm, thanks!

Oh sorry maybe there are two different error messages here. I didn't get the first one just the one pertaining to not reading the log file.

Oh I had the same exact error message and thought that may be it. I had to create ircd.motd as well.

The init.d script is the skeleton script that comes with Debian and has been working fine.

It must not like the Unreal script then. I thought that was the binary. I will try it again tonight and let you know how it turns out. Thanks!

I think the easiest thing to do here is create the log file yourself.

"tail: cannot open `/home/user8/Unreal/ircd.log' for reading: No such file or directory"

This is how I resolved it.

I am not certain but I think my current install is 3.2.3 and also did not have parameters like it does now, like start for example. Though I did try to add the parameter to the init.d script.

I am working on migrating unreal from one server to another and while writing up my own documentation for a smooth transition I found that version 3.2.8.1 doesn't behave the same as an init.d daemon (not sure if that is the best term to use). I get Permission Denied, though I can start it fine as ...