[IRCServices Coding] Services 5.0 alpha 9 released

[Finny Merrill]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Andrew Church wrote:

> >>      You should probably look into what check_access_cumode()
> >> (modules/chanserv/access.c) is doing; that part of the
> >> code has been
> >> thoroughly redone and gotten almost no testing.  I'm not
> >> sure what would
> >> cause the autovoice level to get set to 0.
> >
> >Ahh, I wasn't very clear there - the autovoice level was set to 0 on
> >the version 4 services by my chanops to make it easier to silence
> >certain users :). On the v5 net, with both the xOP and Levels modules
> >loaded, nothing happens to level 0 users, and users previously
> >autoopped (levels 5+) are all set mode +hq (insofar as that there is
> >more than one +q user in the room...).
> 
>      Hm, I'll have to take a look into that... but it will have to be after
> I get back from vacation, I think. (:  If you want to look into it yourself,
> check_access_cumode() is a good place to start, as mentioned above.
> 
> >- The news.db database (imported from version 4) corrupted rather
> >easily the first time I sent services a SIGTERM. Now I get [Oper
> >News - Jan 01 1970] (null).
> 
>      I, uh, fixed that.  Really.  The gremlins must have backed out my
> commit, or something.
> 
> >- The /os rehash command doesn't seem to rehash very many
> >configuration options. I could be wrong, but I don't think I've seen
> >any of the modules.conf options updated using this command.
> 
>      It should get most of them, and you should get log messages for ones
> that can't be dynamically updated.  (However, this is only since alpha 8;
> alpha 7 didn't have support for reconfiguration in the modules.)  At the
> least I've been able to make OperServ dynamically change nicks here.
> 
> >- httpd/auth-password doesn't seem to work at all for me:
> >Module httpd/auth-password
> >    AuthName            "PhaseNet Test IRC Services"
> >    Protect     /debug          "quack:quack"
> >    Protect     /dbaccess       "quack:quack"
> >EndModule
> >
> >No auth box is presented

You *DO* have the LoadModule line in services.conf, right?

> 
>      Hm, it seems to have broken somewhere.  I'll look into this as well.
> 
> >- The httpd/dbaccess module is very useful for debugging
> >access/levels problems such as the above, but it would be quite handy
> >to have a http://serviceshost/dbaccess/chanserv/chan/levels page,
> >showing the xOP levels sometimes.
> 
>      Added to TODO.
> 
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org
>     http://achurch.org/
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