ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -- 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. Support for Services has been tested using "IRC Services" version 5.x by Andrew Church (), and a Anope 1.9 using a preliminary protocol module for ngIRCd (). This document describes setting up ngIRCd and these services. Setting up ngIRCd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The "pseudo server" handling the IRC services is configured as a regular remote server in the ngircd.conf(5). In addition the variable "ServiceMask" should be set, enabling this ngIRCd to recognize the "pseudo users" as IRC services instead of regular IRC users. Example: [SERVER] Name = services.irc.net MyPassword = 123abc PeerPassword = 123abc ServiceMask = *Serv Setting up Anope 1.9.x ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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! 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: uplink { host = "server.irc.net" port = 6667 password = "123abc" } serverinfo { name = "services.irc.net" type = "ngircd" } Setting up IRC Services 5.1.x ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IRC Services 5.1.3 and above can be used with ngIRCd using the "rfc1459" protocol module. Please note that versions up to and including 5.1.3 contain a bug that 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: At least the following settings have to be tweaked, in addition to all the settings marked as required by IRC Services: In ircservices.conf: Variable Example value RemoteServer server.irc.net 6667 "123abc" ServerName "services.irc.net" LoadModule protocol/rfc1459 In modules.conf: Module protocol/rfc1459 The documentation of IRC Services can be found here: Please let us know if you are successfully using other IRC service packages or which problems you encounter, thanks!