Category Archives: Help
Meet the services, part 4: The rest
So, if you’re wondering what the other services are, here’s the list and the summary of their capabilities: HelpServ: Redirects to the help for other services. Exceptionally useless, but technically you *can* use it if you want to for some reason. HostServ: Manages the custom hostmasks for users. Only I (well, or the other opers, [...]
Meet the services, part 3: MemoServ
Have you ever wanted to send a message to someone, but they were offline? MemoServ is the answer! Assuming they’re registered, anyway. Send a memo, and they will be notified upon receiving it (if they’re online) or when they identify with NickServ (if they’re not). MemoServ can: Send: The most important part, lets you send [...]
New NickServ feature: autojoin channels
Ok so it’s not really “new” I just forgot to enable it and found it when I was reading the manual looking for something else. Anyway, NickServ now has an ‘ajoin’ command which will let you add channels to join automatically on identify, which is useful if (like me) you connect from different computers and [...]
Meet the services, part 2: ChanServ
ChanServ, as its name suggests, manages channels. Its primary purpose is to manage user access levels, so that people can automatically become voices, ops, or whatever. You must register a channel to use it with ChanServ. ChanServ can do the following things: Register (and Drop): Assigns a channel to you. You need the name of [...]
Meet the services, part 1: NickServ
In this series I’m going to cover the basic services available to users. This is not intended as a syntactic reference, just a feature guide. If you need to know how to use a specific command, see the end of this post for details on how to find out. NickServ is the foundation of all [...]
So what do all those modes do?
From the IRCd’s own description, here’s all the user modes: o = Global IRC Operator O = Local IRC Operator a = Is a Services Administrator A = Is a Server Administrator N = Is a Network Administrator C = Is a Co Administrator d = Makes it so you can not receive channel PRIVMSGs [...]