-- Services.txt --
-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.
+ngIRCd doesn't implement a "special IRC services interface", but services
+acting as a "regular servers" ("pseudo servers") are supported, either
+using the IRC protocol as defined in RFC 1459 or RFC 2812.
Support for Services has been tested using
- - Anope 1.9.4 or later (<http://www.anope.org/>)
+ - Anope 1.9.8 or later (<http://www.anope.org/>; unreleased!)
- Atheme 7.0.2 or later (<http://www.atheme.net>)
- "IRC Services" 5.1.x by Andrew Church (<http://achurch.org/services/>)
Setting up Anope 1.9.x
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Anope 1.9.4 (and above) can be used with ngIRCd using a preliminary "ngircd"
-protocol module contained in our contrib/Anope/ directory. Please see the
-file contrib/Anope/README for installation instructions!
+Anope 1.9.8 or later (<http://www.anope.org/>; unreleased as of 2012-11-10)
+may be used with ngIRCd using the "ngircd" protocol module.
+Until Anope 1.9.8 is released, you have to use the sources from the Anope
+development GIT tree, see <http://sourceforge.net/projects/anope/develop/>!
-After patching and installing Anope, at least the following configuration
-variables have to be adjusted in data/services.conf, in addition to all the
-settings marked as required:
+At least the following settings have to be tweaked, in addition to all the
+settings marked as required by Anope:
+
+In conf/services.conf:
+
+ define
+ {
+ name = "services.host"
+ value = "services.irc.net"
+ }
uplink
{
password = "123abc"
}
- serverinfo
+ # Load ngIRCd protocol module
+ module { name = "ngircd" }
+
+ networkinfo
+ {
+ # Must be set to the "MaxNickLength" setting of ngIRCd!
+ nicklen = 9
+
+ chanlen = 50
+ }
+
+In conf/nickserv.conf:
+
+ nickserv
{
- name = "services.irc.net"
- type = "ngircd"
+ # not required if you are running ngIRCd with a higher nickname limit
+ # ("MaxNickLength") than 11 characters, but REQUIRED by default!
+ guestnickprefix = "G-"
}