You have to do something like bellow before starting up the bot. # mkdir home/of/the/sulci/the/bot # cd home/of/the/sulci/the/bot # cp %%PREFIX%%/share/examples/sulci/sulci.conf.example sulci.conf # vi sulci.conf # ln -s %%PREFIX%%/share/sulci/tlds.db . # echo sulci_enable=\"YES\" >> /etc/rc.conf # echo sulci_chdir=\"home/of/the/sulci/the/bot\" >> /etc/rc.conf Also, you could add rc.subr's vars like this: sulci_user="sulci" sulci_nice="20" sulci_precmd="eval `/usr/bin/limits -U sulci -e`" and don't forget to chown home/of/the/sulci/the/bot Note: you have to get the key from Google before using the "google" plug-in. See http://api.google.com/ for how to. WARNING!!! After upgrading from 0.5.a.20050918 version you have to convert you vocabulary database to sqlite using %%PREFIX%%/libexec/sulci/wtf_convert and change sulci's configuration file in "vocabulary" directive, see %%PREFIX%%/%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/sulci.conf.example