I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but it's really not obvious, hence this email.
I tried just "/connect chat.freenode.net" and then "/msg nickserv ..." a few times. I always got dumped and it said "You need to identify via SASL to use this server". Something like that. If I don't connect first, then I just get "Not connected to server" when I try to /msg nickserv chris On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 2:57 PM Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > On 2018-08-08 14:43:33 -0400 (-0400), Chris Morgan wrote: > [...] > > What did not work for me is trying to msg nickserv from the command-line > > IRC client (irssi). I can't send a message to nickserv without > connecting, > > and (it seems to me anyway) can't connect without a nickname. Seems a bit > > chicken and egg to this IRC newbie. > [...] > > It's been a while since I used irssi personally (switched to weechat > some 5-6 years ago), but it should only have rejected your ability > to auto-join OpenStack official IRC channels until you > registered/identified and not prevented you from connecting to > Freenode. You only need to be in a server buffer and connected to be > able to `/msg nickserv ...` but don't need to be in any channels at > all so shouldn't be a chicken-and-egg scenario. > -- > Jeremy Stanley > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > -- Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com>
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