Thread 3582

So you've never used IRC before, and now you need to learn. This guide will walk you through the process of installing and configuring the necessary software to get you into #janiteam.

First, download and install OpenSSL:
http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

You need this piece of software as #janiteam requires that you be connected to the Rizon network using a secure connection. If you aren't, then you can't join. You need "Win32 OpenSSL v1.0.1f Light" and possibly "Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables".

Next, download and install HexChat.
http://hexchat.github.io/downloads.html

Just use the default options to install, and run HexChat when finished.

When HexChat starts, it will immediately open the 'Network List' dialog. First, choose a unique nickname and enter it in both the 'Nick name' and 'User name' fields. Then scroll down in the 'Networks' list until you find Rizon. Highlight it and click 'Edit...'.

This opens up the 'Edit Rizon' dialog. Check 'Use SSL for all servers on this network' and 'Accept invalid SSL certificate' Click on 'Close' on this dialog, and then click on 'Connect' on the 'Network List' dialog.

Now the main HexChat window opens, and HexChat connects to the Rizon Network securely using SSL. If you get an error message at this point you've screwed something up. After you've received the Global Message, you've successfully connected. Now we need to do a few steps to REGISTER your nickname with Rizon. Enter this command:

/msg NickServ REGISTER your_chosen_password valid@email.address

Make sure there are no spaces before the slash. This will send an email with a confirmation code to the email you specified.

Check your email and get the confirmation code. Now use the command:

/msg NickServ CONFIRM ConfirmationCodeFromYourEmail

The email should tell you this anyway, and you should just be able to copy & paste this whole command from it.

Once your nickname has been successfully registered, go to the menu bar and click 'Server', then 'Disconnect'. Next, in the menu bar click on 'HexChat', then 'Network List'. With Rizon highlighed, click on the 'Edit' button to bring you back to the 'Edit Rizon' dialog. Go to the 'Autojoin channels' tab, click on 'Add' and enter the channel name including the # symbol (so, #janiteam) and the current channel key which can be found in the sticky at the top of this board. NEVER GIVE OUT THIS KEY TO ANYONE.

The next thing to do is set up automatic identification. Near the bottom of the 'Edit Rizon' dialog there is a drop-down menu called 'Login method'. Select the entry named 'NickServ (/MSG NickServ + password)', and then put the password you used when you registered your nickname in the line underneath.

The last thing we need to do is set up some user modes. Click on the 'Connect commands' tab, and click on the 'Add' button. Then enter the command mode %n +GCRp. This will do several things which will help protect your privacy, but most importantly will hide non-common channels in /whois queries.

That should be it! Assuming you've done everything correctly so far, you should be able to click on 'Close' on the 'Edit Rizon' window, and then 'Connect' on the 'Network List' window, and you should be in. Moreover, any time from now on that you want to join the channel, all you have to do is start HexChat and connect to Rizon. Everything else should be automatic from now on.

A vhost is a service that hides your hostname on IRC. Instead of showing your ISP name and potentially your location (or even your IP), your hostname will read nick!user@your.vhost.here when /whois is used to look up your information.

You can request your vhost from Rizon's HostServ service, following the rules explained in http://wiki.rizon.net/index.php?title=VHost#Rules. Basically, don't use anything racist, anything that makes you look like an IRC admin, or anything that would actually bring you to a website if you entered it in your browser. It can only have alphanumeric characters and dashes, and needs to have at least one period in between those letters.

To request a vhost, use the following command:
/msg hostserv request your.vhost.here

Your request will be submitted for approval, which can take minutes to hours. When it's approved or denied, you will get a MemoServ message. If your vhost is approved, you can activate it with the following:
/msg hostserv on

After activating the vhost this way, it will be activated every time you identify to the nickname you used when requesting it. If you have yourself auto-authed upon connect (see >>3588), your vhost will activate before you join any channels.

/msg MemoServ SET LIMIT 0 will disable Memoserv, which is sometimes used to bypass the +G mode. If a user gets your IRC nickname somehow and really wants to bug you they might try this.

Also you might want to set your IRC client to automatically reject DCCs, file transfers, and whatnot.

I think someone is on my IRC name, it says I'm already active in the room and I can't enter. I just changed my pass. What can I do?

>>3685

Just make sure that it isn't a ghost first. Use this:

/msg NickServ ghost nickname password

>>3687
It keeps saying
:Register first.

Which is weird. I don't know what's going on.

I have no idea what to do. First it told me I was already on, so I killed the Ghost, and reset the password. I check my email, copy and paste the code. It gives me a temp code and when I put in the new password it gives me it tells me it's incorrect (even when I copy and paste it directly)
Then it tells me I need to Register for #Janiteam

Has my account been terminated or something?

I'm having issues getting onto IRC today.
Updated the password but receiving this
>Error(473): #janiteam Cannot join channel (+i)

Are my janitor abilities about to be terminated?
(Would we be informed if that was the case?)


>>3689
I think it just means you're not logged in, I've had this before. Maybe try
/nick [username]
and then follow the directions, or
/msg nickserv identify [username] [password]

>>3691
The channel is temporarily in invite-only mode. You'll need to PM a mod if you want an invite, but they won't be able to respond to you if they're using the +G user mode.

With the channel being invite only now, will everyone be able to get back in?

I saw at some point that I received an invite, but I don't know how to accept them, or whatever. It didn't auto join me, or anything.

>>3693
>I saw at some point that I received an invite, but I don't know how to accept them, or whatever. It didn't auto join me, or anything.

/join #channelname

without the <>

>>3692
>>3693
It's no longer invite-only.

I personally recommend this:

Syntax: SET KILL {ON | QUICK | OFF}

Turns the automatic protection option for your nick
on or off. With protection on, if another user
tries to take your nick, they will be given one minute to
change to another nick, after which NickServ will forcibly change
their nick.
>/ns set kill on

If you select QUICK, the user will be given only 20 seconds
to change nicks instead of the usual 60.
>/ns set kill quick

That simply means a user has to identify within 60 or 20 seconds, otherwise the nick will get changed. To turn it off, use
>/ns set kill off

So I'm thinking about making the switch from mIRC to this client.

Anyone know how to (with any client) make it so I have two nicks? One in janiteam and one for my other channels?

I'm sure I could figure it out using two clients or after spending a few hours fucking around. However I'm looking for something easy, maybe something I can put in the auto-preform area. I don't want to waste two hours punching shit in every time I close the program.

>>3712
I believe you'd have to start 2 server sessions in hexchat with different names.

in HexChat, select HexChat -> New -> Server Tab or hit Ctrl-T, then on that tab join rizon as usual with a different name.

>>3712
>>3713
What I do in Hexchat (and what you'd do in mIRC if possible) is clone Rizon in the server list. Make a new entry called "Rizon 2", copy over all the server info, then disable "use global user info" and enter your second nickname, password, etc. That way you can open both of them without having to manually open a new tab and typing /server rizon blah.

Depending on how mIRC handles personas, you should be able to do something like that. If there's no support for more than one set of user info, you can still probably use connect commands to change to another nickname and identify for it.

You can also consider grouping your nicknames, in case you use more than one connection simultaneously, or have connection problems and get dropped and end up without voice as YourNick_

The instructions are here: http://wiki.rizon.net/index.php?title=Services_Commands#Group_nicknames

Then you type in /msg hostserv group

Which will synchronize your nicks' vhosts into the one you're currently using.

I can't seem to get on the IRC, has the passkey been changed? I can access /j/ obviously and the reports queue but I cannot access #janiteam, when prompted for the passkey I enter the one I was given previously and it doesn't allow me in.
I wasn't aware if I should start another thread for this so I'm just posting here.

>>3737

The most up to date passkey is always listed in the sticky at the top of the page. If it's different than the one you were given then it has likely been changed.

>>3738
>>3737
I am having this issue right now

Double checked for the passkey in /j/ but the channel still gives me the boot for having the wrong password ( It says "Requires keyword" instead, but I tested with a manual join attempt too, so something is up )

>>3836
Check again. There was an issue where the new key couldn't be stickied and the old one couldn't be un-stickied, but now the up-to-date one is stickied as it should be.

See >>3820.

I am having some extreme issues logging into IRC. Not sure what the issue is. Might be compromised? I don't know for sure.

>>3963
There were a couple of netsplits earlier that booted everyone off. It seems okay now.

I can't get into janiteam right now, it keeps saying my password is wrong :|

>>3963
>>3965
You mean the NickServ password is incorrect, not the channel key? You should request a password reset e-mail immediately, and change to a new, secure password, on the off chance that someone else is using your nickname.

http://wiki.rizon.net/index.php?title=Reset_Nick_Password

>>3966
Thank you!

So I'm having trouble trying to get into the IRC channel. Whenever I try to join it says my nick is already in use. I waited a day and used another IRC client but still the same problem.

I tried to follow what >>3691 and >>3687
did but I also get ":Register first".

Any ideas?

>>4468
never mind, it works now

HexChat started telling me tonight I can't join #janiteam because it is "invite only".

My password and everything else is up to date as far as I know.

>>4480
It's not a bug, it's a feature™.

But seriously, try again tomorrow. It's not on your end.

>>4481

Good to hear. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong, and I wanted to make sure the Mods knew I wasn't just declining to log into HexChat.

>>4480

I currently have the same issue, I'm on Chatzilla and can't join janiteam either.

>>4484
Same problem here

>>4486
New computer, having issues.

It's saying I need to identify but it finds my host name....and then saying I'm not registered. Didn't have a problem the other night. I'm using the password I've always used.
(janitor for /cm /y /x)

>>4724
Are you using the same computer? You should have an email account associated with your IRC nick. Have you received any emails from rizon?

Im assuming youre on hexchat and have followed this guide.

>>4724
You can reset your password with the instructions found in >>3966.

>>4726
I got it.
It was something simple I overlooked with my username. DUH
But thank you as always for your help!

I'm getting an error when trying to connect to #janiteam: "Cannot join channel (SSL is required)"

I've changed nothing about Hexchat or my OpenSSL install, and I've been using IRC fine for weeks, so this is came randomly out of the blue.
I updated Hexchat and reinstalled OpenSSL, and checked all my Hexhat settings, but I'm getting the same error. Any ideas?

>>4745
Did you check the Use SSL for all the servers and Accept invalid SSL Certificate boxes? Both need to be checked.

I recently started dualbooting Ubuntu and it won't let me connect because the OpenSSL stuff is for windows but I need it to connect. Is there an alternative for linux-users?

>>4889
Nevermind I'm retarded, I fixed it.

Using an older pc but for some reason it won't let me log on now. Saying wrong password but they are all correct....

>>4958
Change your password: >>3966

>>4959
>http://wiki.rizon.net/index.php?title=Reset_Nick_Password


It worked. Thanks. :)

I'm getting the message "can't join #janiteam(+k)". This is my first time setting it up on my Android but I'm pretty sure I got around the settings right.

>>5311
You're not entering the channel key correctly. Check the sticky.

I have been unable to connect to irc for a few days now. No matter which network I choose, I get the message "Unknown host. Maybe you misspelled it?"

I can't think of anything I've changed that could be causing this, and I've tried a few solutions from Google that didn't work. It's not my antivirus or anything like that. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.

>>5321
Have you tried changing the port? Try 9999 or 6697

Other than that the only thing i can think of is a network problem, like maybe your computer isn't authorizing the program access to a network

Having issues logging in again. It's saying my nickname isn't registered even though it shows my user name and sets the modes...I have updated the new password as well. Any ideas? Its probably something simple I'm overlooking.

>>5879
your nick may be logged in already, have you tried ghosting it?

>>5881
Yep, tried that, it can still find my host name but it keep saying:
* #janiteam :You need to login to services to join or speak in that channel.
I've not logged in for a little over a week so IDK what is going on.

I ended up re-registering with a new email address. It wouldn't let me register with my usual one and it kept saying Part 1 of Registration process expired or something similar. so -yay- At least I'm in there now.

>>3582 (OP)
Started using my mac more often. Best IRC client for OSX?

>>6705
When im on my mac, i run a windows VM and use hexchat on windows.

>>6705
irssi in your native terminal, you have access to the best IRC client so why settle for anything less?

>>6705
after you don't like irssi, try weechat