ircd looing

[Jie Gao <jgao@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

I've just installed ircd (irc2.9.4) on a DEC Alpha 255/300 running DEC-UNIX4.0.

I tried to connect irc and ircii to it, but apparently the server got
into some sort of a loop and aborted itself. The daemon log says:

Jan 14 16:09:31 wdalpha inetd[25408]: /usr/local/bin/ircd: exit status 0xffffff00
Jan 14 16:09:45 wdalpha last message repeated 498 times
Jan 14 16:09:45 wdalpha inetd[25408]: irc/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated

Now I tried both using and not using ircd.conf (and using the default setup), but 
the same thing seemed to happen. 

I have this line in the inetd.conf file:

irc     stream  tcp     wait    root    /usr/local/bin/ircd     ircd

(Yes, I also tried the -o and -i)

and defined the thing in /etc/services:

irc             6667/tcp                # Internet Relay Chat

The permission of ircd is: 

-rwxr-xr-x   1 daemon   terminal  270336 Jan 14 16:01 /usr/local/sbin/ircd

When I ran it on command line, it wouldn't stay.

When I ran "ircd -v" I got:

root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/alpha-dec-osf4.0:161> ircd -v
ircd 2.9.4 AaEfiIMu
        zlib not used
        ircd_dir: /usr/local/lib/ircd 
        Wed Jan 14 1998 at 15:59:54 EST #1



Now what have I done wrong here?

Any help is appreciated.

Jie