Freenode IRC Server Details

Monday Jul 09, 2007

The group I work in is using an IRC server for communication. Some people have asked me what my setup is. I currently use Chatzilla as my main client because it is cross-platform and has a "/stalk" command which will ping me when certain words like "anyone", "someone", and "lunch" are used on a channel. Chatzilla can be easily installed as a Firefox Browser Add-on. Information on other IRC clients that team members use are listed on this wiki page. The details below use the Chatzilla as an example, but you can use similar steps for other IRC clients.

Say you want your nick to be "joeuser". In chatzilla you specify this in: Chatzilla->Preferences->General->Identification. You then connect to an IRC server such as freenode.net:

/attach freenode

You can then join a channel, for example "#nbdev":

/join #nbdev

On freenode, user registration is optional but it allows you to reserve your nick and to send private messages to others. If you register, you only do this once. Pick a password, say "mysecret". Register your nick and password by sending it to the "nickserv" robot:

/msg nickserv register mysecret

This sends a private message to the robot. The robot knows the message came from "joeuser" because that was what your nick was set to. The message is to register a password with that nick and the password is "mysecret".

The part that you do each time you connect is the equivalent of logging in. To do that you send a private message to the nickserv robot what your password is. Do this as follows:

/msg nickserv identify mysecret

This sends a private message to the nickserv robot and it knows it comes from "joeuser" because that is your current nick. The private message is that you want to login with the password you registered earlier. If all goes well, you can then send private message to other users.

You can put the following in Chatzilla->Preferences->freenode->Lists->Auto-perform:

"/msg nickserv identify mysecret"
"/join #nbdev"

This will cause chatzilla to automatically run those commands when you connect to "freenode".

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Posted at 03:49PM Jul 09, 2007 by edwingo in General
Tags: irc