Installing PsyBNC

Installation

First, install basic dependencies:

# pkg_add libcares gcc
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/egcc /usr/local/bin/gcc

Set up a new user to privsep.

# useradd -m -g=uid -c "psybnc" -d /home/psybnc -s /bin/ksh psybnc
# su psybnc

Note: If your server has an unreliable connection, you may need to apply this patch to increase its tolerance to delay:

--- src/p_server.c.old  Mon Oct 21 18:31:19 2024
+++ src/p_server.c      Mon Oct 21 18:03:30 2024
@@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@
 }

 #ifndef STONETIME
-#define STONETIME 240
+#define STONETIME 2400
 #endif

 #ifndef STONECHECKDELAY

Install c-ares then build psybnc:

$ cd
$ ftp http://psybnc.org/download/psyBNC-2.4.3.tar.gz
$ tar zxf psyBNC-2.4.3.tar.gz
$ rm psyBNC-2.4.3.tar.gz
$ cd psybnc
$ make

Inside psybnc.conf:

PSYBNC.SYSTEM.PORT1=6667
PSYBNC.SYSTEM.HOST1=*
PSYBNC.SYSTEM.PORT2=6697
PSYBNC.SYSTEM.HOST2=S=*
PSYBNC.HOSTALLOWS.ENTRY0=*;*

Running

$ ./psybnc

See rcd ? to add psybnc to system startup.

Usage

When interacting with psybnc

NICK nickname
USER nickname nickname bnc.example.com :nickname

all fields must be filled in -- it checks ident for login

To change nicks on a different network: /nick #ircnow~jrmu

I could not figure out how to send a raw command to a specific network, so I just made ircnow the main network

to send a privmsg to a specific network

/query #network~nickname hello, world!
/query #ircnow~Nickserv identify password

To add a network:

/quote addnetwork network

For no SSL:

/quote addserver network~irc.example.com :6667

For SSL:

/quote addserver network~S=irc.example.com :6697

Be careful, if it defaults to IPv4 and you attempt to connect IPv6, psybnc crashes each and every time you load it

Note

As of OpenBSD 7.7, make for psybnc 2.4.3 cannot detect libcares. It used to work on OpenBSD 7.5. psyBNC-2.3.2-7.tar.gz works without any special configuration.