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I run a teenhelp site and our chat server has been being DoSed lately. The shell account was moved but the chat is now down. My chat admin is AWOL (right when I need him) and I need to get the chat restarted. Could someone please walk me thru the process or point me to someone that could.
-SC

So everything is already installed and you have shell access?

yes, everything is installed, im not sure if i only edit the unrealircd.conf file and add the new ip or is there more? if not then everything is ready to go and i do have shell access, although i do not know how to connect to it using anything other then ftp

You need to SSH to the shell (using a SSH client like PuTTY).

You can list all files with the command "ls", most probably Unreal is installed in a subdirectory, use "cd Unreal3.2" (or "cd <Directory Name>", the Name of the directory you saw when you typed "ls").

Then you probably have to edit the unrealircd.conf file (Change the IP in the "Listen" block). You can do this on the shell using an editor like pico or nano (type "nano unrealircd.conf").

After editing the file, you can try to start it, type "./unreal start".

Then try to connect with mIRC etc.

thank you very much, that worked great

You're welcome

Did you recompile Unreal? Otherwise you may experience weird crashes if the new OS is not exactly the same as the old OS.

no, I have not recompiled, everything seems to be working fine except the services, but even if I needed to I wouldn't know where to begin :/