Rich Griese richgriese@gmail.com wrote:

stupid question.... how can i determine what version I am running?

ngircd --version

Rich Griese richgriese@gmail.com wrote:

Sorry.. really stupid question

that does not work from my terminal window or from from my irc window

then the ngircd binary is not in PATH. Try "locate ngircd" to find it.

Alternatively, ngircd outputs the version when new clients connect:

00:02 -!- Irssi: Connection to localhost established 00:02 -!- Welcome to the Internet Relay Network fw!~fw@127.0.0.1 00:02 -!- Your host is irc.local.strlen.de, running version ngircd-16 (i686/pc/linux-gnu)

There is also a /VERSION command that should work from the irc client.

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On 08/13/2010 04:51 PM, Rich Griese wrote:

I think I am running 0.7.6

gIRCd Release 16 was done on 2010-05-02, you're actually quite out of date, circa 2003-12-05, and missing some critical or important security updates.

I know these two command; sudo /Library/StartupItems/ngIRCd/ngIRCd stop

sudo /Library/StartupItems/ngIRCd/ngIRCd start

But for the life of me... I have no idea where the actual code is running from. I got the version from the folder that I installed it from.

Sorry to be such a nob.

No worries, we all have to start some place.

BTW.... I am running on a mac... if you happen to know where the mac install puts the actual sortware would be great if you let me know.

I have no idea, I'm a GNU/Linux guy, but I assume in may be in /usr/local/sbin. I might would inspect the startup script in /Library/StartupItems/ngIRCd/ngIRCd.

remember the original question

I have

PredefChannelsOnly = yes

in my

/usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf

but people are still about to join non predefined channels. I have a single #webulite channel set up, and that is working fine

Cheers! RichGriese@gmail.com

You need to update to at least ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17) which according the changelog adds 'New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only join predefined channels.'

So, my opinion, upgrade. You'll get the security updates and the configuration settings you need to handle your behavioral needs. This also explains why the PredefChannelsOnly directive has no effect.

- -evilghost