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102 lines
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goircd -- minimalistic simple Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server
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DESCRIPTION
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goircd is very simple IRC server, written on Go.
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It was heavily inspired by miniircd daemon written on Python.
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GoVPN is free software: see the file COPYING for copying conditions.
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It does not aim to replace full featured mass scalable IRC networks:
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* It can not connect to other servers. Just standalone installation
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* It has few basic IRC commands
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* There is no support for channel operators, modes, votes, invites
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* No ident lookups
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But it has some convincing features:
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* Only standard Go libraries, no external requirements
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* Single executable binary
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* No configuration file, just few command line arguments
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* IPv6 out-of-box support
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* Ability to listen on TLS-capable ports
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* Optional channel logging to plain text files
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* Optional permanent channel's state saving in plain text files
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(so you can reload daemon and all channels topics and keys won't
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disappear)
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* Optional ability to authenticate users by nickname and password
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Some remarks and recommendations related to it's simplicity:
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* Use either nohup or similar tools to daemonize it
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* Just plain logging on stderr, without syslog support
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SUPPORTED IRC COMMANDS
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* PASS/NICK/USER during registration workflow
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* PING/PONGs
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* NOTICE/PRIVMSG, ISON
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* AWAY, MOTD, LUSERS, WHO, WHOIS, VERSION, QUIT
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* LIST, JOIN, TOPIC, +k/-k channel MODE
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USAGE
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Just execute goircd daemon. It has following optional arguments:
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-hostname: hostname to show for client's connections
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-bind: address to bind to (:6667 by default)
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-motd: absolute path to MOTD file. It is reread every time
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MOTD is requested
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-logdir: directory where all channels messages will be saved. If
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omitted, then no logs will be kept
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-statedir: directory where all channels states will be saved and
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loaded during startup. If omitted, then states will be
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lost after daemon termination
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-tlsbind: enable TLS, specify address to listen on and path
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-tlspem to PEM file with certificate and private key
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-passwords: enable client authentication and specify path to
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passwords file
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-v: increase verbosity
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TLS
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If you specify -bind and -tlsbind simultaneously, then you will have
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both raw and encrypted listening sockets. You can use -bind "" to
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disable raw socket.
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AUTHENTICATION
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You can turn on optional client authentication by preparing passwords
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file and using the -passwords argument. Format of passwords file is:
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login1:password1\n
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login2:password2\n
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...
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LOG FILES
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Log files are not opened all the time, but only during each message
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saving. That is why you can safely rename them for rotation purposes.
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STATE FILES
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Each state file has the name equals to room's one. It contains two plain
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text lines: room's topic and room's authentication key (empty if none
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specified). For example:
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% cat states/meinroom
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This is meinroom's topic
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secretkey
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LICENCE
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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