Installation

Installation is relatively simple. For now I will only write instructions for installing on Ubuntu OS, but it should be easy enough to extrapolate to your preferred system.

Prerequisites

1. Install PHP, SQL and necessary packages.

$ sudo apt install php php-mbstring php-cli php-mysql

2. Install security transport layer

$ sudo apt install openssl libssl-dev

3. Install screen

$ sudo apt install screen

4. Install Git

$ sudo apt install git

Or, if you want to achieve all of the above in one swift command, you can do:

$ sudo apt install php php-mbstring php-mysql php-cli openssl libssl-dev screen git

Downloading

We download from GitHub directly, so:

$ cd ~ && git clone https://github.com/DalekIRC/Dalek-Services

Next, we move into the Dalek-Services directory (cd Dalek-Services) and copy the example configuration to dalek.conf (cp example.dalek.conf dalek.conf).

Setup

Once you've created and tweaked your configuration file, you can generate an unrealircd-style link block for your unrealircd.conf by using the following in your terminal:

./dalek genconf

which will give you something which looks similar to this:

*************** Dalek IRC Services link block for UnrealIRCd *************** 
Just copy and paste this into your unrealircd.conf:
##################################################################################

link services.chat.lol
{
	incoming {
		mask *@127.0.0.1;
	}

	password "SuperSecretPasswordLmao123";

	class servers;
}

ulines {
	services.chat.lol;
}

##################################################################################

Dalek needs to use a port 1024. This is for the RPC server. If your ports are not open, you should open 1024 available for localhost only.

Once you've got a link block set up you can start the services by running:

./dalek start

You can stop them in a similar manner:

./dalek stop

Modules

Dalek IRC allows loading and unloading code on the go. You should put your modules in the src/modules/third folder.

You can load and unload modules as well as list which ones you have currently loaded.

./dalek module list                // lists 3rd party modules
./dalek module list all            // lists all modules loaded 
./dalek module load third/os_raw   // loads the module from the `third` folder
./dalek module unload os_raw       // unloads the module, note we don't need to specify "third" here