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17 <h1>ngIRCd: Next Generation IRC Daemon</h1>
20 ngIRCd is a <span title="free as in freedom">free</span> open source
21 daemon for Internet Relay Chat (IRC), developed under the GNU
22 General Public License (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>).
24 It's written from scratch and is not based upon the original IRCd like
29 <li><a href="#status">Status</a>
30 <li><a href="#why">Advantages</a>
31 <li><a href="#platforms">Supported platforms</a>
32 <li><a href="#docu">Documentation</a>
33 <li><a href="#ml">Mailing List</a>
34 <li><a href="#install">Installation</a>
35 <li><a href="#download">Download</a>
36 <li><a href="#people">Contact</a>
37 <li><a href="#cvs">CVS Repository</a>
38 <li><a href="#bugs">Bug Tracker</a>
39 <li><a href="#history">History</a>
43 Hint: at <a href="http://freshmeat.net/">freshmeat.net</a>
44 there's an <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/ngircd/">entry</a>
45 for the ngIRCd project. You can inform about new releases and get
46 update notifications via E-Mail.
50 BTW: Von dieser Seite gibt es auch eine <a href="index.html.de">deutsche</a>
56 <li><a href="http://ngircd.berlios.de/index.html.en">ngircd.berlios.de</a>
57 <li><a href="http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/index.html.en">arthur.ath.cx</a>
60 <h2 id="status">Status</h2>
63 Current "stable" version is <strong>0.7.1</strong>.
67 ngIRCd is under heavy development and is not complete yet.
71 This version is used in private IRC networks and is known to run
72 quite stable and flawless although it is not tested in huge IRC
73 networks under heavy load yet.
75 Read more about our private IRC network on these <a href="http://Arthur.Ath.CX/irc/">web pages</a>.
79 IRC commands implemented (more or less complete) so far:
82 ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, HELP, INVITE, ISON,
83 JOIN, KICK, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN,
84 NOTICE, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER,
85 SQUIT, STATS, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, VERSION, WHO, WHOIS.
88 I'm glad to receive feedback, bug reports (best choice for this is the
89 <a href="#bugs">Bug-Tracker</a>) and patches. Go on, use the source
93 You can reach me (Alex Barton) via E-Mail:
94 <a href="mailto:alex@barton.de">alex@barton.de</a>.
97 <h2 id="why">Advantages</h2>
99 Why should you use ngIRCd? Because ...
102 <li>there are no problems with servers on changing or non-static IP addresses.
103 <li>there is a small and lean configuration file.
104 <li>there is a free, modern and open source C source code.
105 <li>it is still under active development.
108 <h2 id="platforms">Supported platforms</h2>
110 ngIRCd is tested on a regular basis on the following platform
111 (version numbers used in parenthesis). These are the officially
115 <li>AIX (3.2.5, IBM XL C Compiler)
116 <li>A/UX (3.x, original Apple C Compiler or GNU C)
117 <li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a> (4.5/i386, GNU C)
118 <li><a href="http://www.hp.com/">HP-UX</a> (10.20, GNU C)
119 <li><a href="http://www.hp.com/">HP-UX</a> (9.10/m68k, HP-UX cc)
120 <li>IRIX (6.5, SGI MIPSpro C 7.30)
121 <li><a href="http://www.linux.org/">Linux</a> (2.2.x/i386, 2.4.x/i386 and 2.4.x/hppa, GNU C)
122 <li><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Mac OS X</a> (10.x, GNU C 2.95.x/3.1)
123 <li><a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a> (1.5.2/i386 and 1.5.3/m68k, GNU C)
124 <li><a href="http://www.sun.com/">Solaris</a> (2.5.1 and 2.6, GNU C)
125 <li>Windows with <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/">Cygwin</a> (GNU C)
128 As ngIRCd relies on UNIX standards and uses GNU automake and GNU autoconf
129 there are good chances that it also supports UNIX-based operating systems.
132 <h2 id="docu">Documentation</h2>
134 There's a bit of documentation in the source code package. One's located
135 in the main directory (e.g. INSTALL, README, NEWS and COPYING) others in
136 subdirectories like <code>"doc"</code> (e.g. CVS.txt, FAQ.txt
137 and sample configuration files like sample-ngircd.conf).
139 <p>Parts of the documentation are available here:</p>
141 <li><a href="doc/README">README</a>
142 <li><a href="doc/INSTALL">INSTALL</a>
145 <li><a href="doc/CVS.txt">CVS.txt</a>
146 <li><a href="doc/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>
147 <li><a href="doc/FAQ.txt">FAQ.txt</a>
148 <li><a href="doc/NEWS">NEWS</a>
149 <li><a href="doc/Protocol.txt">Protocol.txt</a>
150 <li><a href="doc/RFC.txt">RFC.txt</a>
153 <li><a href="doc/sample-ngircd.conf">sample-ngircd.conf</a>
156 <li><a href="doc/README-AUX.txt">README-AUX.txt</a>
157 <li><a href="doc/README-BeOS.txt">README-BeOS.txt</a> (German)
160 <h2 id="ml">Mailing List</h2>
162 There is a mailing list which deals with the "technical"
163 questions concerning ngIRCd: compilation, installation, configuration,
164 and the further development. Updates and CVS-commits are announced
167 <p>Please subscribe using the <a href="http://arthur.ath.cx/mailman/listinfo/ngircd-ml">homepage of the list</a>.
168 <p>All postings are archived <a href="http://arthur.ath.cx/pipermail/ngircd-ml/">here</a>.
170 <h2 id="install">Installation</h2>
172 ngIRCd's target are systems based on or similar to UNIX. There
173 shouldn't be any problem on a fairly modern UNIX that's supported by
174 GNU automake and GNU autoconf. If you run into compile problems
175 perhaps you should give GNU C a try (version 2.95 or newer).
180 <blockquote><p><code>
181 tar xzf ngircd-<version>.tar.gz<br>
182 cd ngircd-<version><br>
185 </code></p></blockquote>
187 Now there's the binary executable server file in <code>src/ngircd</code>
188 ("<code>ngircd</code>" in most cases).
190 <blockquote><p><code>
192 </code></p></blockquote>
194 The binary executable is now installed in <code>/usr/local/sbin</code>.
197 The server looks for the configuration file <code>ngircd.conf</code> in
198 <code>/usr/local/etc</code>. A sample configuration file can be found in
202 Further help on installation and configuration can be found in
203 <code><a href="doc/INSTALL">INSTALL</a></code>.
206 <h2 id="download">Download</h2>
208 <dt><strong>ngIRCd 0.7.1</strong> (2003-07-18):</dt>
210 <p>Server: <em>download.berlios.de</em> (<a href="ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/ngircd/">ftp</a>)</p>
212 <li>ngircd-0.7.1.tar.gz:
213 <a href="http://download.berlios.de/ngircd/ngircd-0.7.1.tar.gz">http</a>,
214 <a href="ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-0.7.1.tar.gz">ftp</a>
216 <p>Server: <em>arthur.ath.cx</em> (<a href="ftp://Arthur.Ath.CX/pub/Users/alex/ngircd/">ftp</a>)</p>
218 <li>ngircd-0.7.1.tar.gz:
219 <a href="ftp://Arthur.Ath.CX/pub/Users/alex/ngircd/ngircd-0.7.1.tar.gz">ftp</a>.
224 In addition, all previous versions, GnuPG signatures, as well as nightly tar-balls
225 (generated from the CVS HEAD sources) are also available. Look here:
226 <a href="ftp://arthur.ath.cx/pub/Users/alex/ngircd/">ftp</a>.
229 <h2 id="people">Contact</h2>
231 Idea and most parts of the current code:
232 Alexander Barton (<a href="mailto:alex@barton.de">alex@barton.de</a>).
236 Ilja Osthoff (<a href="mailto:ilja@glide.ath.cx">ilja@glide.ath.cx</a>)
237 for translating parts of the documentation into english and
238 Götz Hoffart (<a href="mailto:goetz@hoffart.de">goetz@hoffart.de</a>)
239 for translating the web page.
242 If you find bugs or have some ideas for enhancements, please file them
243 into the <a href="#bugs">bug tracker</a>. In addition, there is a
244 <a href="#ml">mailing list</a> for discussions concerning the ngIRCd.
246 <p>BTW: Patches are welcome ;-)</p>
248 <h2 id="cvs">CVS Repository</h2>
250 The source and all files belonging to ngIRCd are managed using
251 <a hreflang="en" href="http://www.cvshome.org/"><abbr title="Concurrent Versions
252 System">CVS</abbr></a>. Anonymous access is available, read:
253 <a href="doc/CVS.txt">CVS.txt</a>.
256 The repository is online available through HTTP:
257 <a href="http://Arthur.Ath.CX/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ngircd/">ngIRCd CVS Reposidtory</a>.
260 <h2 id="bugs">Bug Tracker</h2>
262 In order to keep track of feature requests and found bugs there's a
263 Bug Tracking system: <a href="http://arthur.ath.cx/bugzilla/ngircd/">Bugzilla</a>
266 In case you found a bug please check
267 <a href="http://arthur.ath.cx/bugzilla/ngircd/enter_bug.cgi">Bug-Report</a>
268 and describe the circumstances. Thank you!
271 In addition you can <a href="http://arthur.ath.cx/bugzilla/ngircd/query.cgi">inform</a>
272 about known and perhaps fixed bugs.
275 <h2 id="history">History</h2>
277 Please read the files
278 <a href="doc/NEWS">NEWS</a> and
279 <a href="doc/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>
280 for detailed information.
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296 Contact: Alexander Barton, E-Mail: <a href="mailto:alex@arthur.ath.cx">alex@arthur.ath.cx</a>.<br>
297 Thanks to <a href="mailto:goetz@hoffart.de">Götz Hoffart</a> for cleaning up this page and the english translation!