-- Services.txt --
-At the moment, ngIRCd doesn't implement a "special IRC services interface".
-But services acting as a "regular server" are supported, either using the IRC
-protocol defined in RFC 1459 or RFC 2812.
+ngIRCd doesn't implement a "special IRC services interface", but services
+acting as a "regular servers" ("pseudo servers") are supported, either
+using the IRC protocol as defined in RFC 1459 or RFC 2812.
-Support for Services has been tested using "IRC Services" version 5.x by
-Andrew Church (<http://achurch.org/services/>), and a Anope 1.9 using a
-preliminary protocol module for ngIRCd (<http://www.anope.org/>).
+Support for Services has been tested using
+ - Anope 1.9.8 or later (<http://www.anope.org/>)
+ - Atheme 7.0.2 or later (<http://www.atheme.net>)
+ - "IRC Services" 5.1.x by Andrew Church (<http://achurch.org/services/>)
This document describes setting up ngIRCd and these services.
+Please let us know if you are successfully using other IRC service packages or
+which problems you encounter -- thanks!
+
Setting up ngIRCd
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Example:
+ [GLOBAL]
+ Name = server.irc.net
+ Ports = 6667
+
[SERVER]
Name = services.irc.net
MyPassword = 123abc
ServiceMask = *Serv
-Setting up Anope 1.9.x
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Setting up Anope 1.9.x & 2.x
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Anope 1.9.8 or later (<http://www.anope.org/>) can be used with ngIRCd using
+the "ngircd" protocol module.
-Anope 1.9.4 (and above) can be used with ngIRCd using a preliminary "ngircd"
-protocol module contained in our contrib/Anope/ directory. Please see the
-file contrib/Anope/README for installation instructions!
+At least the following settings have to be tweaked, in addition to all the
+settings marked as required by Anope:
+
+In conf/services.conf:
-After patching and installing Anope, at least the following configuration
-variables have to be adjusted in data/services.conf, in addition to all the
-settings marked as required:
+ define
+ {
+ name = "services.host"
+ value = "services.irc.net"
+ }
uplink
{
password = "123abc"
}
- serverinfo
+ # Load ngIRCd protocol module
+ module
+ {
+ name = "ngircd"
+ }
+
+ networkinfo
+ {
+ # Must be set to the "MaxNickLength" setting of ngIRCd!
+ nicklen = 9
+
+ # When not using "strict mode", which is the default:
+ userlen = 20
+
+ chanlen = 50
+ }
+
+In conf/nickserv.conf:
+
+ module
{
- name = "services.irc.net"
- type = "ngircd"
+ name = "nickserv"
+
+ # not required if you are running ngIRCd with a higher nickname limit
+ # ("MaxNickLength") than 11 characters, but REQUIRED by default!
+ guestnickprefix = "G-"
}
+Setting up Atheme 7.0.2 or later
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Atheme 7.0.2 or later (<http://www.atheme.net>) may be used with ngIRCd using
+the "ngircd" protocol module.
+
+The following settings need to be in atheme.conf:
+
+ loadmodule "modules/protocol/ngircd";
+
+ serverinfo {
+ name = "services.irc.net";
+ }
+
+ uplink "server.irc.net" {
+ password = "123abc";
+ port = 6667;
+ };
+
+The documentation of Atheme can be found in the doc/ directory of the
+Atheme source distribution.
+
+
Setting up IRC Services 5.1.x
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
sometimes causes IRC Services to hang on startup. There are two workarounds:
a) send the services process a HUP signal ("killall -HUP ircservices")
b) apply this patch to the IRC Services source tree:
- <ftp://ngircd.barton.de/ngircd/contrib/IRCServices513-FlushBuffer.patch>
+ <http://arthur.barton.de/pub/ngircd/contrib/IRCServices513-FlushBuffer.patch>
At least the following settings have to be tweaked, in addition to all the
settings marked as required by IRC Services:
The documentation of IRC Services can be found here:
<http://www.ircservices.za.net/docs/>
-
-
-Please let us know if you are successfully using other IRC service packages or
-which problems you encounter, thanks!