The Blog of st373n

A while back I packaged up a build of UnrealIRCd ( for someone at one of the mac forums ), an IRC server along with Anope Services for IRC. If anyone else would like the installer package to run their own IRC server on there mac at home here is the link. This version has only been tested on an Intel Mac with 10.5 – 10.5.6, dummy config files are included so just enter your own details and your set.

So what is IRC, well i know it some sort of messaging platform, one of the earliest around.

My goal to learn what and how to use it, what apps, what commands, and what servers and rooms.

Is it just text, is there video, is there voice.

So far ive installed Colloquy as my IRC client, it looks the easiest to get to grips with.

So the most popular servers are listed and quick google will find some, so i added three that i thought would be interesting to Colloquy, a IRC server for a podcast i listen to, a server for a tv listing website and a server for a forum about irc.

So problems so far, it looks as though you need to register with some servers / roms and you do this by sending a private message to a server bot in a kind of backwards way, ok so my nickname that I’m logged into the server with is what Ive entered into colloquy but that does not stop someone else using that so i need to register it on the server, so i send this backwards message to the nickserver and its like this

/msg nickserv register mypass myemail@address.com

so im telling it what password i want and what my email address is but now what i want for my username because im currently logged in with it allbeit without authenticating yet, almost immediately i get a response back giving success that the nickname im logged in with now belongs / is registered to me.

now so i don’t have to identify myself each time i start up Colloquy i need to add the command

/msg nickserv identify mypass

to Colloquy connection window so it send the login info when it starts the connection.

This worked for two of the servers i registered with the third still requires me to manually enter the command /msg nickserv identify mypass and yet still does not recognise that i have registered, perhaps this server is just slow or perhaps I’m doing something incorrect i will have to work it out.