I have tried more than a handful of clients. For some reason we still need to use arcane knowledge such as /msg NICKSERV IDENTIFY Can anybody recommend an ncurses client that saves the IDENTITY information so it does that automatically. I tried both pidgin, weeechat and hexchat and all of them are a bit weird. Looking forward for answers.

IRC channels have a prefix (most commonly #, but occasionally others like & or +). This # has become a feature of many messaging apps that came after IRC (discord, slack, etc). I'm curious if this was a random choice from the set of non-alphanumeric characters, or if it was motivated/preceded by some other usage. [This 1993 RFC](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1459#section-1.3) sets out the distinction between # and &, but does not contain any hints at the reasoning. Are there any earlier documents on why # was chosen?

REHASH from my original question. I'm trying to get VT100/ANSI escape codes working in an irc client (ircII). What facilitates this, is the

.scr

file. The apparent problem, is that I cannot get a working terminal working with the pseudo terminal.

yields this:

: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device

So, I believe if I solve this,and get a working terminal, I solve my initial problem. Thank you.

I'm having a problem when compiling ninja IRC client. (http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/5b/ninja-1.5.9pre14.tar.gz) It compiles fine, but segfaults upon executing. When strace'ing the program, it says that it is using

/lib64/libtinfo.so.6

, but here's the problem, i'm using openSUSE Leap (version 15.4) and YaST uses that shared library. When I try compiling/installing a newer version of libtinfo (ncurses), it breaks YaST, to the point where it will not work. I had to

-s

the old version of

. So, my question is this: Can I force ninja to use a different version of

? I _was_ using Debian Bullseye before, and I never came upon this problem...

Trying to make a basic irc bot in python (3.9.2) that can response specific commands when invoked. It works although when a response contains whitespace or a space, only the first word gets displayed by the bot, for example;

me > @hello
bot > hi
me > @how is the weather?
bot > the

it was supposed to say, the weather seems nice today Here's the code

import sys
import time
import socket
import string

server_address="irc.libera.chat"
server_port = 6667

botnick="lamebot"
channel_name="##megadouched"

irc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
irc.connect((server_address,server_port))
irc.setblocking(False)
time.sleep(1)

irc.send(bytes("USER "+botnick+" "+botnick+" "+botnick+" bot has joined the chat\r\n", "UTF-8"))

time.sleep(1)

irc.send(bytes("NICK "+botnick+"\n", "UTF-8"))
time.sleep(1)

irc.send(bytes("JOIN "+channel_name+"\n", "UTF-8"))

irc_privmsg = 'b"PRIVMSG "+channel_name+" Hello\r\n"'

while True:
    try:
        text = irc.recv(4096)
    except Exception:
        pass
    if text.find(bytes(":@hi", "UTF-8"))!=-1:
        irc.sendall(bytes("PRIVMSG "+channel_name+" Hello\r\n", "UTF-8"))
        text=b""
    elif text.find(bytes(":@how is the weather?", "UTF-8"))!=-1:
        irc.sendall(bytes("PRIVMSG "+channel_name+" the weather today seems nice\r\n", "UTF-8"))
        text=b""

input()

I know the nickname and the real name field can be changed with environment variables such as IRCNICK and IRCNAME. However, the documentation does not tell you how the ident is changed. (The ident is the name that's used when you /whois nickname, and it shows up as part of **ident**@username.com in the host field, and the bolded part is what I'm trying to figure out how to change) I'm wondering if this is possible on the ircll client.

When I try to connect to Libera chat using IRSSI I get, -!- Irssi: warning SSL handshake failed: Connection timed out When I try to connect it with weechat I get libera =!= | irc: TLS handshake failed libera =!= | irc: error: An unexpected TLS packet was received. libera -- | irc: reconnecting to server in 1 minute, 20 seconds What's the problem, how can I resolve this issue?

I'm running debian on my home pc. For irc server setup, I installed ircd-hybrid. I happen to have 4G mobile data on my phone and am using it to access the internet using usb tethering through the pc. Now, I'm aware of the fact that tethering ip's are dynamic and they change to a new one on reconnection. But as long as I'm connected to the net, the ip does not change afaik. I am not leaning towards a domain name because it's just a temporary experiment. I guess port forwarding is involved in some way. My objectives are to run the irc server on my home pc, and connect to it from another device through a client not on a local network, but through the internet. Have you tried something like this before? Is it even possible to setup irc server this way? What are your thoughts?

While I'm able to install pidgin, I'm only after the CLI variant of finch for IRC. More generally, I don't recall the specifics of how to add a repo, nor would I know which repo. Primarily: **how do I find the repo which would have finch for CentOS?** [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ sudo yum install -y finch Last metadata expiration check: 0:13:32 ago on Sun 07 Jun 2020 05:07:27 AM PDT. No match for argument: finch Error: Unable to find a match: finch [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description: CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core) Release: 8.1.1911 Codename: Core [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ cat /etc/yum.conf [main] gpgcheck=1 installonly_limit=3 clean_requirements_on_remove=True best=True [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ yum repolist CentOS-8 - AppStream 4.6 MB/s | 7.0 MB 00:01 CentOS-8 - Base 1.3 MB/s | 2.2 MB 00:01 CentOS-8 - Extras 27 kB/s | 6.7 kB 00:00 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:01 ago on Sun 07 Jun 2020 05:23:35 AM PDT. repo id repo name status AppStream CentOS-8 - AppStream 5,318 BaseOS CentOS-8 - Base 1,661 extras CentOS-8 - Extras 20 [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ yum repolist enabled Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:17 ago on Sun 07 Jun 2020 05:23:35 AM PDT. repo id repo name status AppStream CentOS-8 - AppStream 5,318 BaseOS CentOS-8 - Base 1,661 extras CentOS-8 - Extras 20 [nsaunders@rolly ~]$ *On Ubuntu, yum install finch works fine.*

How do I use IRC chat on pidgin? I acquired the Server : irc://irc.freenode.net:6667 and I don't know what to fill in the username? How do I get a username and password? After searching for 30 mins on web I found it Nowhere. Here's a couple of sites which I read and All of thier contents got above my head as I could not understand a word. http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html http://www.linuxassist.net/how-to-connect/ It looks like these articles were written just for the experienced users.

I'm curious to know the reason for the name of BitchX. I searched on internet for etymology but it was a fail.

How do I go about disabling anti-flooding in inspIRCd? It is only an annoyance on a private chat. No anti-flooding modules are enabled and all flooding-limits have been set to maximum - yet it still blocks posting for example an ascii image. Any pointers in the right direction?

I'm looking for solution to tight all my communication channels I'm currently using: FB, GTalk and Skype into the terminal based chat client like weechat. It looks like FB and GTalk use XMPP, but it's really hard to setup suggested weechat plugin jabber.py http://www.weechat.org/scripts/stable/tag/xmpp/ How to deal with weechat + XMPP problem. And how to setup skype chat.

Recently, I got into irc, so I installed [sic](https://tools.suckless.org/sic/) and started - obviously - chatting. But, it turns out that sic doesn't provide any security features like SSL or TCP so I in man sic, they told to use socat to establish a secure TCP connection so I installed it and read the documentary. In the example section, I found this:

socat TCP-LISTEN:www TCP:www.domain.org:www

So I just ran

socat tcp-listen:6667,fork tcp:irc.freenode.net:6697

and tried to connect with it using sic -h 127.0.1 -p 6667 which puked out:

sic: remote host closed connection

with socat not complaining. --- I tried it again with the option -d -d for socat being more verbose: 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N accepting connection from AF=2 127.0.0.1:38664 on AF=2 127.0.0.1:6667 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N forked off child process 1897 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N listening on AF=2 0.0.0.0:6667 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N opening connection to AF=2 185.30.166.37:6697 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N successfully connected from local address AF=2 192.168.178.28:42822 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N starting data transfer loop with FDs [6,6] and [5,5] 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat W read(5, 0x558eefca3710, 8192): Connection reset by peer 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N socket 2 to socket 1 is in error 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N socket 2 (fd 5) is at EOF 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N socket 1 (fd 6) is at EOF 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N socket 2 (fd 5) is at EOF 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N exiting with status 0 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N childdied(): handling signal 17

I'm trying to get my IRCd running on my VPS. I have everything set up and ready, but I cannot connect. Did a portscan, and the prot isn't open. I have root access. How do I open up ports 6667 and 6697?

Consider have a buffer/channel opened in your weechat. I want to temporarily see all the messages of one user/nick. Is this possible? This means only the filtered nick messages will be shown (just for a while).

I have a low-end VPS that is set up with a ZNC as an IRC bouncer, and it runs just fine, it has around 128 MB of flash memory, which is NOT ENOUGH to compile one of the modules I want to use znc-push . After trying to compile on a virtualbox and sending the file over, I get an error of "invalid ELF header" when I try to load the module up. How can I compile this module remotely and then send it over? It has enough memory to run it, but won't compile it, I've looked in to using distcc, but I can't find any reliable info on how to use it. Also, I have tried creating a swap file, but that's not allowed/possible with this VPS.

It seems that the package xchat is not available in the stretch repository, all I can find is xchat-gnome. Can someone tell me if it was removed and if so, why? I'm using mate desktop by the way. My sources.list deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch non-free contrib main deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch non-free contrib main deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates non-free contrib main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates non-free contrib main deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates non-free contrib main deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates non-free contrib main

I would like to have an IRC client (running on a server that I have SSH access to) be persistent on the server without disconnecting from the rooms and servers I joined. In other words, I want to be able to SSH into a server, check messages on the IRC client, disconnect from the SSH server, without ever leaving the chatrooms. How can I achieve that? I'm using irssi and thought about somehow nohup'ing it, but I can't see how that would work.

I have a problem with my ircd-hybrid server. I can only make myself operator in the status tab but not when I join channels. There is my operator tag in ircd.conf: operator { /* name: the name of the oper */ name = "operator"; /* user: the user@host required for this operator. CIDR is not * supported. multiple user="" lines are supported. */ user = "*@127.0.0.1"; /* password: the password required to oper. By default this will * need to be encrypted using '/usr/bin/mkpasswd'. * WARNING: Please do not mix up the 'mkpasswd' program from * /usr/sbin with this one. If you are root, typing 'mkpasswd' * will run that one instead and you will receive a strange error. * * MD5 is supported. If you want to use it, use mkpasswd -Hmd5. */ #password = "3ZokNTld506nY"; password = "$1$oqD3q/0S$wQ1utcJG9Pcutmq6i3qxS."; /* class: the class the oper joins when they successfully /oper */ class = "opers"; /* privileges: controls the activities and commands an oper are * allowed to do on the server. All options default to no. * Available options: * * global_kill: allows remote users to be /KILL'd (OLD 'O' flag) * remote: allows remote SQUIT and CONNECT (OLD 'R' flag) * kline: allows KILL, KLINE and DLINE (OLD 'K' flag) * unkline: allows UNKLINE and UNDLINE (OLD 'U' flag) * gline: allows GLINE (OLD 'G' flag) * nick_changes: allows oper to see nickchanges (OLD 'N' flag) * via usermode +n * rehash: allows oper to REHASH config (OLD 'H' flag) * die: allows DIE and RESTART (OLD 'D' flag) * admin: gives admin privileges. admins * may (un)load modules and see the * real IPs of servers. */ global_kill = yes; remote = yes; kline = yes; unkline = yes; gline = yes; die = yes; rehash = yes; nick_changes = yes; admin = yes; }; Also, how can I configure the server so that when a user joins a channel first, they do not become an operator for the channel?