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+# Rizon Acid Services
+Acid is a Java based pseudo IRC server used by [Rizon](https://www.rizon.net) to run bots like Internets, LimitServ, and Quotes, as well as various others.
+
+## Requirements
+Required to build are:
+* Python2.7, with development headers.
+* Maven.
+* JDK 1.7 or higher.
+* gcc or equivalent C++ compiler with C++11 support for pyva.
+
+## Installing
+It is recommended that you run Acid on a Linux OS.
+
+Start by cloning the repo using:
+```
+> git clone https://gitlab.com/rizon/acid.git
+```
+
+And then grab the submodules using:
+```
+> cd acid
+> git submodule init
+> git submodule update
+```
+
+Go to the folder ```pyva/libpyva/pyva-native/``` and copy ```make.example.properties``` to ```make.properties```. Then modify the values to match your system.
+
+Go back to the acid main folder and run ```mvn package```.
+
+After pyva has been built, symlink ```libpyva.so``` from the pyva-native folder to the acid main folder.
+```
+> ln -s pyva/libpyva/pyva-native/libpyva.so libpyva.so
+```
+
+To obtain the correct python package you can use pip in the ```pyva``` folder
+```
+> pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+## Running
+Acid has several configuration files that are needed for the program to successfully start. All configuration files must be put in the acid main folder.
+
+The list of configuration files:
+* acidictive.yml (acidictive.example.yml located in ```acid``` folder)
+* config.yml (config.example.yml located in ```pyva``` folder)
+* pyva.yml (pyva.example.yml located in ```pyva``` folder)
+
+### Database
+Install the ```acidcore.sql```, located in ```acid``` database in your MySQL server.
+
+Add yourself to the ```access``` table in the acidcore SQL database. Where ```flags``` matches one of the presets in ```acidictive.yml``` or your own set of privileges (SRA or 1 gives you full access in the default setting).
+
+### Anope configuration
+Have the names of the bots you are going to use (ex. Internets) registered and allow them access to ```chanserv/why``` (Anope 1.8) or ```chanserv/status``` (Anope 2.0) command.
+LimitServ requires ```chanserv/op``` access.
+
+### Linux
+Before you can start Acid with libpyva you need to set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to libpython, you can either add this to your ```~/.bashrc``` or to the ```run.sh``` script.
+
+LD_PRELOAD should point to libpython, for example:
+```
+export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libpython2.7.so
+```
+
+### Windows
+Requires a .symlink from libpyva.pyd to pyva.dll for some of the exception features to work.