Re: Tinyirc

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 20:56:01 CET


On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:46:59PM +0100, Gabriele Alberti nicely wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I tried several times to get my confs working on mulinux with "setup -f irc",
> but every time i connect I have the same old nick "craxi".
> I looked the tinyirc.c code and I saw there is this
>
> strcpy(IRCGECOS, "craxi");
> strcpy(IRCNAME, IRCGECOS);
> strcpy(IRCLOGIN, "craxi");
>
> just before the program sends its NICK and USER commands to the server...is
> there a way to make it work before I recompile it? In this way the setup
> script has no sense for irc..
>

Are you using the "irc" wrapper in order to start tinyirc?
The script is /usr/bin/irc. It use the options saved in /etc/irc.conf,
a file created by "setup -f irc".

In other words, the command is called as:

        tinyirc $NICKNAME $IRC_SERVER $IRC_PORT

Michele

P.S. (in italian)
----------------
Effettivamente, ora che Bettino Craxi e' scomparso, tutti i riferimenti
a lui che si possono trovare in muLinux e che risalgono a parecchi
anni fa, ora non fanno piu' ridere.
Ogni tanto cerco di cancellarli, ma qualcuno esce sempre: come questo
che hai trovato tu, e che addirittura e' cablato all'interno di un
compilato.

-- 
I keep trying to locate a meeting of Quantum Physicists. But everytime
they set a meeting time, the location changes. And vice versa -- Anonymous
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