Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:08:16 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use IRC Message-ID: <20001009210816.A9154@gray.westgate.gr> In-Reply-To: <20001009182652.A252@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:26:52PM %2B0100 References: <20001008154902.H253@parish> <20001009012519.A2740@hades.hell.gr> <20001009182652.A252@parish>
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:26:52PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
Hi Mark!
> I originally installed ircat as it has a GTK interface which I figured
> would make it easier for a numbskull like me :) Not so (and the ircat
> website is in Japanese), so I installed ircii (which is what real men seem
> to use) and this is what I get:
>
> % irc-4.4X
> *** Connecting to port 6667 of server change.this.to.a.server
> *** Unable to connect to port 6667 of server change.this.to.a.server: Unknown
> +host
> *** Use /SERVER to connect to a server
You can pass command line args to the `irc' program. I customarily use
it like this:
% setenv IRCNAME 'Giorgos Keramidas'
% irc keramida irc.freebsd.org
The value of the environment variable IRCNAME is what others will see in
IRC when they issue a /whois command for your nickname.
> *** Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.freebsd.org
> *** Looking up your hostname...
> *** Found your hostname, cached
> *** Checking Ident
> *** No Ident response
> *** Notice -- You need to install identd to use this server
Some IRC servers require that a valid identd server is running on the
client machine. It seems that irc.freebsd.org is one of them.
To overcome this, I enabled identd in my /etc/inetd.conf by adding the
following line (taken from /usr/src/etc/inetd.conf):
auth stream tcp nowait root internal auth -r -f -n -o UNKNOWN -t 30
and restarted inetd.
With the internal identd/auth service of FreeBSD's inetd, you can even
fake that your real username is something else, by putting the username
you want identd/auth to show in your ~/.fakeid file.
I sometimes call up IRC like this:
% echo charon > .fakeid
% setenv IRCNAME charon
% irc charon some.irc.server
I think you get the major points to get you started with IRC now. Hope
to see you soon on irc.freebsd.org ;-)
--
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
For my public pgp2 key: finger -l keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr
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