Fix spelling in some documents.

[ngircd-alex.git] / doc / Services.txt

diff --git a/doc/Services.txt b/doc/Services.txt
index a16cfc891370b7f73f645cc8576cb2d9f2e30e5d..67053b16a93155e5315ca03e19fef9c709fd4f7a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/Services.txt
+++ b/doc/Services.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ 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.
 
 But services acting as a "regular server" are supported, either using the IRC
 protocol defined in RFC 1459 or RFC 2812.
 

-Services have been tested using "IRC Services" version 5.x of Andrew Church,
+Services have been tested using "IRC Services" version 5.x by Andrew Church,

 homepage: <http://www.ircservices.za.net/>. This document describes setting up
 ngIRCd and these services.
 
 homepage: <http://www.ircservices.za.net/>. This document describes setting up
 ngIRCd and these services.
 


@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ 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
 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 insted of regular IRC users.
+services instead of regular IRC users.

 
 Example:
 
 
 Example:
 


@@ -39,9 +39,17 @@ Example:
 Setting up IRC Services 5.1.x
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 Setting up IRC Services 5.1.x
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

-IRC Services 5.1.x can be used with ngIRCd using the "rfc1459" protocol
-module. At least the following settings have to be tweaked, in addition to all
-the settings marked as required by IRC Services:
+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:
+    <ftp://ngircd.barton.de/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:

 
 In ircservices.conf:
 
 
 In ircservices.conf:
 


@@ -57,3 +65,6 @@ In modules.conf:
 
 The documentation of IRC Services can be found here:
 <http://www.ircservices.za.net/docs/>
 
 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!