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 -- 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 - Anope 1.9.8 or later () - Atheme 7.0.2 or later () - "IRC Services" 5.1.x by Andrew Church () 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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: [GLOBAL] Name = server.irc.net Ports = 6667 [SERVER] Name = services.irc.net MyPassword = 123abc PeerPassword = 123abc ServiceMask = *Serv Setting up Anope 1.9.x & 2.x ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anope 1.9.8 or later () can be used with ngIRCd using the "ngircd" protocol module. At least the following settings have to be tweaked, in addition to all the settings marked as required by Anope: In conf/services.conf: define { name = "services.host" value = "services.irc.net" } uplink { host = "server.irc.net" port = 6667 password = "123abc" } # 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 = "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 () 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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: