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| - | ====== The Trouble with ZNC ====== | ||
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| - | - ZNC requires one connection per network. If a user wants to connect to 10 networks at once (freenode, ircnow, dal, efnet, etc), it requires him to set up 10 independent connections on his IRC client. This is almost impossible with mobile apps and very confusing for GUI apps. Practical experience has shown that <30% of bouncer users know how to do this. If you rely on ZNC, you will lose >70% of potential users. ZNC developers have declared they have zero interest in fixing this design flaw; in fact, they are proud of it. | ||
| - | - ZNC is not designed for casual users. It requires reading far too much documentation in order to use. For example, typing /msg *status help shows a wall of text that only a sysadmin could understand. You have jargon like AddTrustedServerFingerprint, ClearAllChannelBuffers, and SetUserBindHost -- words that only a sysadmin could understand after reading through several pages of wikis. As sysadmins, we should configure all this for the end-user so the end-user does not have to read a single page of documentation. | ||
| - | - ZNC relies on a web panel | ||
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| - | ====== Why psyBNC ====== | ||
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| - | - ZNC requires one connection per network | ||
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| Note: you may want to create a new user for psybnc using the 'adduser' command? Or use chroot? Clarification should be added here. | Note: you may want to create a new user for psybnc using the 'adduser' command? Or use chroot? Clarification should be added here. | ||
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| <code> | <code> | ||
| $ make | $ make | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | After running $make command , if you get this message.... | ||
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| + | System: OpenBSD | ||
| + | DNS Library (c-ares): Not Available | ||
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| + | Your system does not appear to have the c-ares liberary installed. This library is required for psyBNC to do DNS lookups (as of version 2.4) | ||
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| + | Then you need to add this package prior to run $ make command. | ||
| + | |||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | doas pkg_add libcares | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | After adding the package now you can run the below commands. | ||
| + | |||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | $ make | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | Running psyBNC | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| $ ./psybnc | $ ./psybnc | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | Now open your preferred irc client and write: | ||
| + | |||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | /server host:port password | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | For example, assuming these are your parameters: | ||
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| + | Host/IP : 82.211.13.24 | ||
| + | Port : 31337 | ||
| + | Pass : abcdef | ||
| + | |||
| + | you must type: | ||
| + | |||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | /server 82.211.13.24:31337 abcdef | ||
| </code> | </code> | ||
| It is possible then you may wish to see [[openbsd:rc.d]] to add psybnc to system startup. | It is possible then you may wish to see [[openbsd:rc.d]] to add psybnc to system startup. | ||