ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
- Support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration has been
removed. The configuration option "NoZeroconf" is no longer available.
+- The structure of ngircd.conf has been cleaned up and three new configuration
+ sections have been introduced: [Limits], [Options], and [SSL].
+ Lots of configuration variables stored in the [Global] section are now
+ deprecated there and should be stored in one of these new sections (but
+ still work in [Global]):
+ "AllowRemoteOper" -> [Options]
+ "ChrootDir" -> [Options]
+ "ConnectIPv4" -> [Options]
+ "ConnectIPv6" -> [Options]
+ "ConnectRetry" -> [Limits]
+ "MaxConnections" -> [Limits]
+ "MaxConnectionsIP" -> [Limits]
+ "MaxJoins" -> [Limits]
+ "MaxNickLength" -> [Limits]
+ "NoDNS" -> [Options], and renamed to "DNS"
+ "NoIdent" -> [Options], and renamed to "Ident"
+ "NoPAM" -> [Options], and renamed to "PAM"
+ "OperCanUseMode" -> [Options]
+ "OperServerMode" -> [Options]
+ "PingTimeout" -> [Limits]
+ "PongTimeout" -> [Limits]
+ "PredefChannelsOnly" -> [Options]
+ "SSLCertFile" -> [SSL], and renamed to "CertFile"
+ "SSLDHFile" -> [SSL], and renamed to "DHFile"
+ "SSLKeyFile" -> [SSL], and renamed to "KeyFile"
+ "SSLKeyFilePassword" -> [SSL], and renamed to "KeyFilePassword"
+ "SSLPorts" -> [SSL], and renamed to "Ports"
+ "SyslogFacility" -> [Options]
+ "WebircPassword" -> [Options]
+ You should adjust your ngircd.conf and run "ngircd --configtest" to make
+ sure that your settings are correct and up to date!
+
Differences to version 16
- Changes to the "MotdFile" specified in ngircd.conf now require a ngircd
The configure-script is used to detect local system dependencies.
-In the perfect case, configure should recognise all needed libraries, header
+In the perfect case, configure should recognize all needed libraries, header
files and so on. If this shouldn't work, "./configure --help" shows all
possible options.