ircII

[noo_b_nomnoms]

I have installed this to chat with you guys on #bbq (?), but I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing! I managed to /help- then couldn't get out of it- and do not know what to do next.
Join? Connect?
weechat was worse- I couldn't type anything, so I was stuck looking at the welcome screen.
After you've finished lyao- and I think that's only appropriate- Could one of y'all just throw me just enough to get me in?
I will wing it and learn it from there :))

[franksinistra]

https://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/we ... er.en.html
https://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/we ... rt.en.html
https://freenode.net/faq.shtml

if you have never used irc before : http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html

You should always $SEARCH_ENGINE some stuff first or read the manual pages / web documentation. :)

[Dr_Chroot]

^^ If you aren't ircII savvy, you might want to look at irssi or weechat instead (and their respective ArchWiki pages!). Both are lighter weight options but are a little more "intuitive" and feature rich.

But, if you are still wanting ircII, these look like great places to start learning!

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IRC/beginners.html
http://superuser.com/questions/477963/h ... lp-session
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/clients/unix/ircii/
http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/ ... 00064.html

(FWIW, I use rcirc in Emacs instead of ircII or weechat anymore because I already have it installed with Emacs whether I want it or not :D)

[noo_b_nomnoms]

Thanks, y'all! I installed weechat first, so I'll give it a first look. I did not think a thing like chat could be so complex, lols! Off to study....

[machinebacon]

/nick pick_a_name_you_like
/connect irc.freenode.net
/join #linuxbbq

that's how you enter the orgy.

/quit

will quit.

[wuxmedia]

once you are down with all the connections as above, then you can edit the $config_file to autologin.
I just run the program and it logs in for me.
important to know the basics, if you get stuck in a tty without another device to google.


Looking at your scrot ircII seems to have logged you into it's own server. So might have to - and i'm guessing here - to /disconnect ?

(yes you really do need to prefix commands with forward slash)

[machinebacon]

quite surprised ircII is still in the repos... not quite sure if anybody else uses it here at the grill. usually the guys pick irssi or weechat, but to each his own :)

[noo_b_nomnoms]

Thanks! @wux I was wondering why the doggone thing wouldn't let me go anywhere! x-))

[dkeg]

Like the others said. Read documentation, quick how-to's. As MB says, from where you are (scrot), you would need to connect to a server, irc.freenode.net, then join a channel. You can connect to multiple servers and multiple channels on a server.

Our channel is #linuxbbq on the freenode server

[noo_b_nomnoms]

My short term memory strikes again :( Somebody fill in the blanks:
/server add ______________
I can take it from there.

[simgin]

^ nomnom, it has been written twice now....
irc.freenode.net

[dkeg]

https://weechat.org/files/doc/devel/wee ... rt.en.html
https://www.linode.com/docs/application ... relay-chat

[simgin]

^ That will have to bloody well cover it, very easy, organised and readable documentation. Does not get much better than that. :D

[noo_b_nomnoms]

07:56 -!- Irssi: Server irc.freenode.net saved
07:56 -!- Irssi: Looking up irc.freenode.net
07:57 -!- Irssi: Connecting to irc.freenode.net [2001:948:7:7::140] port 6667
07:57 -!- Irssi: Unable to connect server irc.freenode.net port 6667 [Cannot assign requested address]
07:58 -!- Irssi: Looking up chat.freenode.net
07:59 -!- Irssi: Unable to connect server chat.freenode.net port 6667 [Temporary failure in name resolution]
07:59 -!- Irssi: Looking up chat.freenode.net
08:00 -!- Irssi: Unable to connect server chat.freenode.net port 6667 [Temporary failure in name resolution]
08:04 -!- Irssi: Removed reconnection to server chat.freenode.net port 6667
08:04 -!- Irssi: Looking up chat.freenode.net
08:04 -!- Irssi: Reconnecting to chat.freenode.net [2a01:270:0:666f::1] port 6667 - use /RMRECONNS to abort
08:04 -!- Irssi: Unable to connect server chat.freenode.net port 6667 [Cannot assign requested address]

[wuxmedia]

is it possible your provider has blocked IRC? pretty unlikely

That or your resolv.conf is buggered:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... re-357274/

[wuxmedia]

what happens in a term if you:

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 ping chat.freenode.net 

[noo_b_nomnoms]

chuck@hello:~$ ping chat.freenode.net
ping: unknown host chat.freenode.net
chuck@hello:~$

[pidsley]

Please post the output of:

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ping -c3 google.com
ping -c3 82.96.64.4
cat /etc/resolv.conf
ls -l /etc/resolv.conf

[noo_b_nomnoms]

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chuck@hello:~$ ping chat.freenode.net
ping: unknown host chat.freenode.net
chuck@hello:~$ ping -c3 google.com
PING google.com (63.96.4.22) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 22.4.96.63.irving.google-ggc.verizon.com (63.96.4.22): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=1086 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 1 received, 66% packet loss, time 2015ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1086.661/1086.661/1086.661/0.000 ms, pipe 2
chuck@hello:~$ ping -c3 82.96.64.4
PING 82.96.64.4 (82.96.64.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 82.96.64.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=1213 ms

--- 82.96.64.4 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 1 received, 66% packet loss, time 2009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1213.350/1213.350/1213.350/0.000 ms, pipe 2
chuck@hello:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.43.1
chuck@hello:~$ ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Feb  8 08:38 /etc/resolv.conf
chuck@hello:~$

[noo_b_nomnoms]

I had heard that Verizon was going to start blocking Tor connections some time ago, and I started using bridges just to avoid it, but I don't even have the Tor overlay on this system. I never heard about them blocking irc. The time that I was on last, I was on Verizon, that's why I figured I had just messed up and forgot exactly how I got on the server last. I should have used that autoconnect command to save it, but I forgot to because I was rushing between my unload and the yard- and then a million things once I got there, so I turned the box off to cool.