# HUDLITE-SERVER on Debian — Liran Tal

how to get Hudlite telephony Linux system working

Canonical: https://lirantal.com/blog/2006-10-10

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The guys at Fonality didn’t care enough to get a .deb package for us debian guys so here’s a quick
copy and paste guide to get hudlite-server installed on debian (unstable in my case).

### Perl module dependencies:

```
apt-get update
apt-get install libnet-dns-perl
apt-get install libxml-parser-perl libxml-simple-perl
apt-get install libpoe-component-client-dns-perl libpoe-filter-ircd-perl libpoe-filter-xml-perl libpoe-perl libpoe-component-client-dns-perl libacme-poe-knee-perl
```

### IRCd install:

```
apt-get install ircd-hybrid
mv /etc/ircd-hybrid/ircd.conf /etc/ircd-hybrid/ircd.conf.orig
nano /etc/ircd-hybrid/ircd.conf make sure it looks like this:# ircd.conf for HUD IRC server
logging {
log_level = L_ERROR;
};

serverinfo {
name="HUDserver";
description="Server IRC";
network_name="ExampleNet";
network_desc="Example Network";
hub=no;
};

class {
name="users";
ping_time=90 seconds;
number_per_ip=200;
max_number=200;
sendq=100000;
};

class {
name="opers";
ping_time=90 seconds;
number_per_ip=10;
max_number=10;
sendq=500000;
};

class {
name="server";
ping_time=5 minutes;
connectfreq=15 minutes;
max_number=5;
sendq=1 megabytes;
};
```

### define what class and block for auth users

```
auth {
user="*@*";
class="users";
password="password";
can_flood = yes;
have_ident = no;
true_no_oper_flood = yes;
flags = exceed_limit, \
can_flood, \
can_idle, \
true_no_oper_flood;
};

listen {
port=6600;
};

general {
default_floodcount = 1000000;
anti_nick_flood = no;
max_nick_time = 20 seconds;
max_nick_changes = 5;
anti_spam_exit_message_time = 0 minutes;
fname_userlog="/var/log/ircd/user.log";
fname_operlog="/var/log/ircd/oper.log";
fname_foperlog="/var/log/ircd/foper.log";
warn_no_nline=yes;
pace_wait_simple = 0 second;
pace_wait = 00 seconds;
ping_cookie = yes;
no_oper_flood = yes;
true_no_oper_flood = yes;
max_targets = 999;
client_flood = 0;
use_help = yes;
throttle_time = 0;
};
```

And:

```
chown irc:irc ircd.conf
/etc/init.d/ircd-hybrid restart
```

### hudlite-server install:

```
alien hudlite-server-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm
dpkg -i hudlite-server_1.3.1-2_i386.deb
nano /etc/init.d/hudlite-server
```

comment out all the conflicting lines.

```
nano /usr/local/fonality/hud/conf/context.xml
```

check the manager configuration for the password cause it’ll have to be adjusted
to be the same one in /etc/asterisk/manager.conf which you’ll edit next

```
nano /etc/asterisk/manager.conf
```

add the following:

```
[hud]
secret=admin
permit=localhost
read = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user
write = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user
```

Create the following symlinks:

1.  `ln -s /usr/share/perl5/POE /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/`
2.  `ln -s /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/PerlIO.pm /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/`
3.  `ln -s /usr/share/perl5/POE /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/`

Attempt to start `hudlite-server` now.

Resources: [http://www.voipphreak.ca/archives/296-Gentoo,-Asterisk-and-HudLite-Installation-and-Setup-Howto.html](http://www.voipphreak.ca/archives/296-Gentoo,-Asterisk-and-HudLite-Installation-and-Setup-Howto.html)

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