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>
+ <http://arthur.barton.de/pub/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: