FAQ¶

• Do you have a typical logrotate configuration to archive and compress bip logs?
  • /etc/crontab:
    

    PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
    
    # adapt minute, hour, day of month, month and day of the week
    # run every 1:11am sunday
    11 1    * * 7   root    ionice -c3 srv_bip_logs_compress
    

  • srv_bip_logs_compress
    

    $ cat /usr/local/sbin/srv_bip_logs_compress
    #!/bin/sh
    
    LOG_CURDIR=$(date +'%Y-%m')
    
    find /srv/bip/logs -mindepth 2 -type f -mtime 1 -name "*.log" ! -wholename "*/${LOG_CURDIR}/*" -exec gzip {} \;
    

• when building Bip error: unused parameter occurs
  source:configure.ac#L32 use the AX_C___ATTRIBUTE__ macro. This macro is included in autoconf-archive
  Full error message:
  

  src/connection.c: In function ‘tmp_dh_cb’:
  src/connection.c:1093: error: unused parameter ‘ssl_unused’
  make[1]: *** [src/connection.o] Error 1
  

  
  Rerun bootstrap script after installation of autoconf-archive.

• How take in account bip.conf modifications without restarting bip ?
  Send signal HUP to bip.
  

  # Debian / Ubuntu
  /etc/init.d/bip reload
  # Other
  killall -HUP bip 
  

• Ubuntu 10.04: How to compile bip from repository ?
  

  sudo apt-get install git-core gcc flex bison libssl-dev automake autoconf-archive
  ./bootstrap
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/bip
  CFLAGS="-Wno-error" ./configure --prefix=/opt/bip
  make
  

• Is there a limit on the number of lines bip saves for each channel ?
  See backlog_lines option when backlog is then stored into memory.

• Does bip try to connect to IRC servers automatically after bip is started ?
  Yes. But note that Bip will not connect to a network if there is no connection using this network.

• Does bip have a command that displays list of networks in bip.conf ?
  There is a "/BIP LIST" command. Admin could use "/BIP LIST networks|users|connections|all_links|all_connections" while user could use "/BIP LIST networks|connections".

• Does bip support modules ?
  No

• How to send command to bip ?
  Use "/BIP command" or "/quote BIP command" or "/query -BIP command"

• Any way to use sasl with bip ?
  No