Unrealircd.conf issue (not that I can't configure one)

[Keith]

Hi all. I haven't posted here before, since I'm just getting used to this form thing.
Stelf, I finally got UnrealIRCd to compile last night actually. Turned out at the time after I left #Unreal-support, that I realized that the emerge script in Gento had emerged curl, for remote includes, but that Unreal wasn't setup for it, and could not find curl in /usr/lib. Finally also turned out that I hadn't ran the Curl install script, but finally got it to compile just fine.
Thought I'd let you know about that.
Now, for the other issue here (and I feel some background here about my computer environment should be given here)
I am a blind computer user; don't have any vision for one thing, so that means that I'm accessing the computer through the use of screen reading applications through speech output half of the time, and must navigate completely upon the keyboared.
I have read you're documentation over UnrealIRCd very carefully, and in fact, I do know what I am doing once I open up the .conf for UnrealIRCd to load.
very reesently, I had started encountering errors very weird errors with the UnrealIRCd service under Windows XP Professional SP2, deciding to crash at will, once remarkably with a simple /rehash! And note at the time I was using the origenal Windows binary from you're site 3.2.3, with no modifications.
I finally decided to install Linux, while keeping Windows on this box.
Currently, I've got myself a duel-boot environment with Microsoft Windows XP Professional service pack2, and Gentoo Linux as the other OS; I have noticed here that Linux is handeling much more stable then Windows is by a long shot. While Windows gives me all kinds of error reports etc LOL, Linux I'm glad to say is holding up well.
However, the issue is not that I cannot right my own Unrealircd.conf. The issue here, is that I am kind of a Linux newbie as far as at least how to get a text editor to open.
I've tryed using this command in nano... which did not work despite the fact that I did spessify the correct path;
Tryed typing this..
'Nano /home/keith/Unreal3.2/docs/example.conf' and hit enter.
Just opened a blank file though LOL!!! Any suggestions on how I could like; just get the example.conf file up on my screen? rofl
I'm sorry if I am sounding somewhat of a blind moron, but a great deal of my time has been spent with the Windows version of UnrealIRCd upto this point. Therefore, I've never really neded support with this, but I refuse to run UnrealIRCd under Winblows period, just because the way I look at it: No matter how much ram you have, Windows is a resource hog. Demands more, and more, ram, and so on, while some of us can't keep getting ram put into our boxes just to sattisfy Windows. Another thing about that, is I've noticed no matter what version of Windows I run UnrealIRCd on, windows is not known for uptime; and that's the last thing I know my users on my IRC network want, as I have gotten complaints about the fact that my box was not always staying up (since Windows was being an idiot like it was built)
Linux on the other hand, has given me no issues, and I feel UnrealIRCd now that I've finally gotten it to compile, is going to run much nicer
Thank you for you're help.
If I was a sighted person, I probably wouldn't eaven bother explaining any of this, but I'm not, so sometimes I have to use slightly different methods of using computers and performing commands then a tipical sighted person would with the mouse.
Thank you very much,
Regards and long live UnrealIRCd's development and future,
Keith!

[Darvocet]

OK well I am sorry that nobody has replied to your post yet, so hopefully I can lend a little help. First off I am glad that you have made the change to linux. From my experience the linux environment is infinatly more stable that windows, and that IRCd just runs easier there.

There are several text editors for linux, although many may not be installed by default on your machine. If I read correctly you would be using Gentoo, and I believe 'nano' is the major editor that comes pre-installed.

Note that Linux is CASE-SENSITIVE, so "Nano" with a capitol N is different than "nano" in all lowercase.

Try for example "nano /home/keith/Unreal3.2/docs/example.conf". Something else you could try is navigating to that folder, before trying to open it in the editor. In Linux you use commands similar to DOS to navigate. For example you could do "cd /home/keith/Unreal3.2" to move into the Unreal directory, then you could "nano unrealircd.conf" if you needed to edit that file.

Some other editors and programs that could be useful for you, if you are able to successfuly emerge them. One that is a File Manager, text based, but could be helpful called "midnight commander" or "mc". A popular text editor besides nano is available in that called "pico" which you could also emerge. Once inside here you can highlight the file you want to edit and hit F4. I'm not sure if that is helpful, but it's maybe worth a shot.

But a quick answer to your question, I am not totally sure why that is happening, you should be able to edit that file fine, If it exists. Try manually moving to the directory and performing an "ls" to see the contents of the folder. Make sure that file is there, and then "nano example.conf" That hopefully should allow it to open fine.