[IRCServices] Wrong user count error

Finny Merrill griever at t2n.org
Fri Dec 21 05:57:00 PST 2001


On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Bryan Clark wrote:

> thebeast wrote:
> 
> > Hello Andrew
> > 
> > about the wrong user count error reported for the first time in the
> > mailinglist at Fri Nov 30
> > i have found out that wen a user is leaving or is helped leaving
> > the irc server with /msg operserv raw: operserv svskill (nick) (reason)
> > then the user is still counted as connected.
> > i hope this will help you a bitt in on the way to find out where to 
> > looking in the source.
> > 
> > by the way a merry christmas and a BUG free 2002 ;))
> > 
> > 
> 
> I'm not Andrew, but I have some insight into this one. ;) '/operserv 
> raw' does one thing and one thing only, and that's send the rest of the 
> line to the server services is connected to. That might be why the help 
> for the raw command is phrased the way it is:
> 
> -OperServ- Sends a string of text directly to the server to which
> -OperServ- Services is connected.  This command has a very limited
> -OperServ- range of uses, and can wreak havoc on a network if used
> -OperServ- improperly.  DO NOT USE THIS COMMAND unless you are
> -OperServ- absolutely certain you know what you are doing!
> 
> :)
> 
> 


Shouldn't have anything to do with it, unreal afaik echos back quits from 
svskills I think

I have a similar issue sometimes on unreal with session limiting