X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7697150092d55e78a4114d1e284130a9b3d45744;hp=abb02292e584fac97b1991e63e5a8dbba11915cb;hb=a673a6e3af783c9c80cadd0cf3c963c754d84649;hpb=ae128734ac680394545508d90c57c1bc46e969c4 diff --git a/README b/README index abb02292..76971500 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,105 +1,89 @@ - - ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton, - alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ + ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server + http://ngircd.barton.de/ - ngIRCd ist freie Software und steht unter - der GNU General Public License. + (c)2001-2016 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + ngIRCd is free software and published under the + terms of the GNU General Public License. - -- README / Liesmich -- - - Ilja Osthoff, + -- README -- - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ - | Please note: English translations of some of the german documentation | - | files can be found in the directory "doc/en" -- please have a look! | - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +I. Introduction +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for +small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License +(GPL; please see the file COPYING for details). It is simple to configure, +can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and supports IPv6 as well as SSL. It is +written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd. -I. Einfuehrung -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The name ngIRCd means next generation IRC daemon, which is a little bit +exaggerated: lightweight Internet Relay Chat server most probably would be a +better name :-) -ngIRCd ist ein Open-Source-Server fuer den Internet Relay Chat (IRC), der -unter der GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) -entwickelt wird. ngIRCd steht fuer "next generation IRC daemon", er ist von -Grund auf neu geschrieben, also nicht wie die meisten anderen IRCd's vom -Urvater, dem Daemon des IRCNet abgeleitet. +Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information! II. Status ~~~~~~~~~~~ -Zur Zeit befindet sich der ngIRCd noch in Entwicklung, manche Features sind -noch nicht implementiert, andere nur teilweise. - -Bisher (mehr oder wenig vollstaendig) implementierte IRC-Befehle: +ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be used as daemon in +real world IRC networks. -ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, ERROR, INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, -LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART, -PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT, TIME, TOPIC, -USERHOST, USER, VERSION, WHO, WHOIS. +It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviors of the +original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics +specified by the RFCs that are used by existing clients. -III. Features (oder: warum gerade ngIRCd?) -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?) +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- keine Probleme mit Servern, deren IP-Adresse dynamisch ist, -- einfache, uebersichtliche Konfigurationsdatei, -- frei verfuegbarer C-Quellcode. -- ngIRCd wird aktiv weiterentwickelt. -- unterstuetzte Plattformen (getestete Version): AIX (3.2.5), A/UX (3.0.1), - FreeBSD/i386 (4.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), Linux (2.x), Mac OS X (10.x), - NetBSD (1.5.2/i386, 1.5.3/m68k), Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6), Windows mit Cygwin. +- Well arranged (lean) configuration file. +- Simple to build, install, configure, and maintain. +- Supports IPv6 and SSL. +- Can use PAM for user authentication. +- Lots of popular user and channel modes are implemented. +- Supports "cloaking" of users. +- No problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses. +- Freely available, modern, portable and tidy C source. +- Wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, + IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin. +- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001. -IV. Dokumentation +IV. Documentation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Im Paket enthalten ist u.a.: +More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of +ngIRCd: . -- README: das Dokument, das Du gerade liest :-) -- INSTALL: Hinweise zur Installation des ngIRCd -- NEWS: sagt der Name schon :-) -- ChangeLog: die komplette History des ngIRCd -- doc/FAQ.txt: haeufige Fragen und Antworten zum ngIRCd -- doc/CVS.txt: Hinweise zum CVS-System -- doc/RFC.txt: Infos ueber die RFC's -- doc/sample-ngircd.conf: Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei -- doc/README-AUX.txt: Installationshinweise fuer A/UX -- doc/README-BeOS.txt: dito fuer BeOS -- doc/en/: englischsprachige Dokumentation - - -V. Bezugsquellen -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +V. Download +~~~~~~~~~~~ -Die Homepage des ngIRCd ist: ; dort -findest du immer die neusten Informationen ueber den ngIRCd und die aktuellen -freigegebenen ("stabilen") Releases. +The homepage of the ngIRCd is ; you will find +the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent ("stable") +releases there. -Falls du dich fuer die aktuellen Entwicklungs-Versionen (die jedoch nicht -immer "stabil" sind) interessierst, dann lese bitte den Punkt "CVS" auf der -Homepage und die Datei "doc/CVS.txt", die die Verwendung des "Concurrent -Versioning System" (CVS) beschreibt. +Visit our source code repository at GitHub if you are interested in the +latest development version: . -VI. Bugs -~~~~~~~~ +VI. Problems, Bugs, Patches +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Wenn du im ngIRCd Bugs finden solltest (so was soll ja auch vorkommen :-), -dann lege bitte einen Bug-Report ueber diese URL an: +Please don't hesitate to contact us if you encounter problems: - +- On IRC: +- Via the mailing list: -Dort kannst du dich auch ueber bekannte Fehler informieren. +See for details. -Falls du noch Anregungen, Kritik, Patches etc. pp. zum ngIRCd hast, dann -bitte einfach eine Mail an oder -schreiben. +If you find bugs in ngIRCd (which will be there most probably ...), please +report them to our issue tracker at GitHub: +- Bug tracker: +- Patches, "pull requests": --- -$Id: README,v 1.14 2002/11/24 18:48:59 alex Exp $ +There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.