Hello, and thanks in advance for any help.
I want to set up a lightweight IRC server, and ngircd seems perfect. I can't find some documentation on certain things, however... for example, in the README it says

"Implemented IRC-commands are:

ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, HELP, INVITE, ISON,
JOIN, KICK, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE,
OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT,
STATS, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, VERSION, WALLOPS, WHO, WHOIS,
WHOWAS."

However, I can't seem to find the syntax for any of these! I tried using help, but that just brings up MIRC's help.

There are a couple of things I'd like to do at the moment, but am unsure of how, for example: I made a persistent room, and want to make myself the operator of it. I used /oper to make myself an irc admin, but /mode #channel +o myname gives me a 'you are not channel operator name.' I can't see in the server logs where to set this, and it seems odd that despite being an irc operator, I can't just force the mode command.

If there is a place where things like this are documented more thoroughly I'd lvoe that. Otherwise, I'd deeply appreciate any help you 
Jon