Hi All. I have to set up an IRC server. That's all right. But I also have to let a channel open in this same server, because I want my students to log in this channel as soon as they enter irc (bitchx -c <channel> or irc -c <channel>). "Once upon a time", it was done using something called "bots", that were basically users that never logged off (not counting power fails :). They were some kind of "scripts" I believe, but it was ages ago.
Could somebody tell me (or point me some document where I can read about it, because in Debian's manuals pages I was not able to find any reference to anything like this) How can I do this. In short: I am setting this server for my 1999 math class and, I want them to talk with themselves. In order to do so, they will be getting accounts on Linux Boxes (or will connect using vncservers) and I would like to hava an alias like this: alias chat 'bitchx -c <channel> -n $USER irc.socrates.if.usp.br' I could not understand the use of the config files: .ircrc or .bitchxrc. Any help is more than welcome! Daniel. _______________________________________________________________________ Daniel Doro Ferrante email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network/System Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cecm.usp.br/~danieldf http://www.latt.if.usp.br/~danieldf CECM - Curso de Ci?ncias Moleculares - USP Course of Molecular Sciences - University of S?o Paulo - Brazil