Elemental-IRCd is a high performance, lightweight, and scalable IRC daemon. It is a fork of the now-defunct ShadowIRCD and seeks to continue in the direction ShadowIRCD was headed. An `/etc/rc.d/rc.elemental-ircd` script is supplied which supports start/stop/restart/reload, which you can call from your rc.local: # /etc/rc.d/rc.local # ================== if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.elemental-ircd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.elemental-ircd start fi The `reload` parameter will make an already running ircd reload its configuration file. The elemental-ircd will refuse to run as root, so you need to create a user for it: groupadd -g 315 elemental-ircd useradd -u 315 -g 315 -d /var/lib/elemental-ircd elemental-ircd By default we name the user `elemental-ircd` with UID 315, and put it in the `elemental-ircd` group (GID 315). If you want to give it a different name, uid or gid, you can give IRCD_UNAME=elemental-ircd IRCD_UID=315 IRCD_GID=315 different values when running the slackbuild script. Before starting the ircd, you'll need to create a configuration file for it. It should be named `/etc/elemental-ircd/ircd.conf`. In that directory there is already an `example.conf` and a `reference.conf`. Note: elemental-ircd comes with a binary called `/usr/bin/mkpasswd`, which is used to create passwords for o-lines, but it creates a conflict with `/usr/bin/mkpasswd` from expect, so the `mkpasswd` supplied by elemental-ircd is renamed to `ircd-mkpasswd` by the SlackBuild script.