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- ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server + ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat + (IRC) + server for small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). - It is easy to configure, can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and - supports IPv6, SSL-protected connections as well as PAM for - authentication. It is written from scratch and not based on the - original IRCd.
- The name ngIRCd means next generation IRC daemon, + The server is quite easy to configure and runs as a single-node server + or can be part of a network of ngIRCd servers in a LAN or across the + internet. It optionally supports the IPv6 protocol, SSL/TLS-protected + client-server and server-server links, the Pluggable Authentication + Modules (PAM) system for user authentication, IDENT requests, and + character set conversion for legacy clients. +
++ The name ngIRCd stands for next-generation IRC daemon, which is a little bit exaggerated: lightweight Internet Relay Chat server most probably would have been a better name :-)
-- Hint: - at Freecode there's an - entry - for the ngIRCd project. You can inform about new releases and get - update notifications via E-Mail. -
- Why you should be using ngIRCd? For these and other reasons: -
ngircd --help
ngircd --help
- ngIRCd supports - a whole range - of platforms: Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, but - ngIRCd also runs on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and other Unices. -
-
- After the installation of ngIRCd, which is executed via packet
- installation or configure-make-make-install, and once you have edited
- the ngircd.conf, you can get started after 5 minutes â only a
- few lines need adapting, the rest is purely optional.
+ After installing ngIRCd (which is best done with the package manager of
+ the operating system or directly from the source code, see
+ INSTALL.md) and adjusting the configuration
+ in the ngircd.conf
file, the IRC server can be ready for
+ use after just 5 minutes - only a few lines need to be changed
+ there, the rest is optional and can be used with the default values.