[IRCServices] tri-ircd5 and ircservices-5.0.14

[Andrew Church]

     Combined reply:

>> I have encrypted the password on the server side, put the plain text 
>> password into the services config file.  Doesn't work.

     This is the way it should be (assuming you compiled your ircd with
encrypted passwords)--Services has to have the password in plaintext.

     One possibility that springs to mind is that the OS you're using is
rewriting IP addresses behind your back.  I know that at least Linux seems
to do this under some circumstances, and it causes me no end of grief.  Try
setting the hostnames in the ircd and Services config files to 127.0.0.1
and see if that works.

>all I can think of doing is running ircservices on the highest debug level
>to see what data is being sent over the connection. Wipe your log file,
>start services once and see if the log file contains any useful info...

     Just for the record, debug level 1 is sufficient to get 

>If you can't see anything, send a copy of the logfile to me 
>(griever at t2n.org)
>(I'm not sure if you're supposed to send it to the list or not) and I'll
>attempt to decipher it.

     In general, entire log files shouldn't be sent to the list (snippets
like the one in the original post are fine), because they (1) take up
people's inbox space, (2) take up bandwidth on the list server machine,
and (3) might contain passwords and other sensitive information.  There is
in any case, or at least was in the past, a 40kB limit on post size as
well.

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