Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x

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diff --git a/doc/Services.txt b/doc/Services.txt
index 26d1d7e6d17987e6ebbf106f58d94c7ef639fb4b..2cef7781e81072b3650242991db3a59c4a790dc8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/Services.txt
+++ b/doc/Services.txt
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@
                               -- 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
- - Anope 1.9.4 or later (<http://www.anope.org/>)
+ - 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/>)
 
@@ -41,16 +41,22 @@ Example:
      ServiceMask = *Serv
 
 
-Setting up Anope 1.9.x
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Setting up Anope 1.9.x & 2.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!
+Anope 1.9.8 or later (<http://www.anope.org/>) 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:
 
-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
   {
@@ -59,10 +65,32 @@ settings marked as required:
        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-"
   }