[IRCServices] channel's last used time

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Tue Sep 18 15:53:00 PDT 2001


     This was fixed in version 4.5.21.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>I am using a fairly old and modified version of ircservices so I
>apologise if this is no longer the behaviour of ircservices.  I just
>thought I better report it in case it is.
>
>I had a report from a channel founder that his channel had suddenly
>ceased to exist.  On further investigation it had apparently
>expired, even though people had been using the channel.
>
>I worked it out when I looked at their LEVELS settings.  They don't
>like being auto opped, so they had disabled AUTOOP.  When they
>needed ops they would just use /msg chanserv op.  However, using
>chanserv op does not update the channel's last_used time.  Hence
>their channel expired even though they were using it every day.
>
>It did give me a bit of amusement, but whilst disabling autoop like
>that is not a popular choice it is a valid one and should not result
>in expiration of channel; I made a quick fix by make ci->last_used
>get updated every time check_access returns success.
>
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