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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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