Bitlbee Not Working in PCBSD 9?

[purgatori]

This is what I get:

$/usr/local/etc/rc.d/bitlbee start

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/bitlbee: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/pbi/bitlbee-i386//bitlbee

Looking in the directory referenced, I don't see an executable:

$ ls /usr/pbi/bitlbee-i386/
.auto-external-links bitlbee.conf         libexec
.headerdir           bitlbee.png          man
.pbi-hash-list       etc                  motd.txt
.sbin                gui_banner.png       sbin
.xdg-desktop         gui_sidebanner.png   services
.xdg-menu            include              share
.xdg-mime            info                 www
README               lib
bin                  libdata

[Beanpole]

PBI executables are generally located in /usr/pbi/(pbiname-architecture)/.sbin/
In the case of Bitlebee, since it is a server application, there might not be any executables and you will have to start the service directly with: "/usr/pbi/bitlbee-i386/etc/rc.d/bitlbee start" (some services also require root permissions to start up, but I can't remember if bitlbee is one of them)

If memory serves me right, the Bitlbee service is also automatically started when you install the PBI, so you might want to do a "ps -auwwx | grep bitlbee" to see if it is already running or not first.

Hope this helps!

[purgatori]

PBI executables are generally located in /usr/pbi/(pbiname-architecture)/.sbin/
In the case of Bitlebee, since it is a server application, there might not be any executables and you will have to start the service directly with: "/usr/pbi/bitlbee-i386/etc/rc.d/bitlbee start" (some services also require root permissions to start up, but I can't remember if bitlbee is one of them)

If memory serves me right, the Bitlbee service is also automatically started when you install the PBI, so you might want to do a "ps -auwwx | grep bitlbee" to see if it is already running or not first.

Hope this helps!

Ugh... stupid me, you're right:

$ ps -auwwx | grep bitlbee

purgatori   3652   0.0  0.3   9748   1296   1  S+    5:41AM 0:00.00 grep bitlbee

But although the daemon seems to be running, I can't seem to connect to it. The first stumbling block is that I'm not sure if the config file is being read at /usr/pbi/bitlbee-1386/bitlbee.conf or /usr/local/etc/bitlbee/bitlbee.conf -- My hunch is that it's the latter, but I made identical changes to the config file in both cases, namely:

DaemonInterface = 127.0.0.1
DaemonPort = 6667

However, in ERC I get "connection refused" when trying to connect to either "localhost" or "127.0.0.1." Checking it with telnet produces the following output:

$ telnet 127.0.0.1 6667
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

telnet localhost 6667
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

It seems I always have trouble with Bitlbee on any new install, but I really can't figure out where I'm going wrong this time.

[purgatori]

Can someone tell me where Bitlbee is being started from when installed from PBI? An entry in /etc/rc.conf is automatically created, but this makes an erroneous call to an executable/script that doesn't exist. For this reason, I commented out the rc.conf entry, but using Beanpole's above ps command, I discovered that the Bitlbee daemon is still running... somehow. Without knowing how it's being called, or what config files it's reading it's really difficult for me to troubleshoot the source of my problems -- and standard references are of little help, as the PBI version of Bitlbee appears to be configured quite differently.