CCIS IRC Service

You can connect to Crew's Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server from any machine on the Northeastern University network. It is located at irc.ccs.neu.edu or bratwurst.ccs.neu.edu on port 6667

Admins / IRCops

Your friendly IRC admins, or those who actively maintain the IRC server, are: jon (JonLeonard) and statico (IanLangworth). There are more channel catalysts, though.

How to Connect

You must connect to the IRC server from a Northeastern University IP address (129.10.* or 155.33.*). From a machine running Windows, you can use mIRC If you're a CCIS student, we recommend that you connect to CCIS via SSH and use irssi as described below.

Note if you're going to use irssi: If you've never used irssi before, Ari recommends that you read the quick HOWTO/tutorials at http://www.irssi.org. DO NOT JOIN THE CREW CHANNELS until you have familiarized yourself with the commands and your client. /help is your friend. #crew is not an IRC (or anything non-Crew-related) support channel. If you'd like a place to test things out, type /join #test to go into a test channel.

When using the CCIS IRC service, be reminded that you are subject to the ResNet Appropriate Use Policy and possibly the CCIS AUP.

General Chat

Join #general and talk about anything!

On Solaris (e.g, the Sun workstations or denali.ccs.neu.edu),

/arch/unix/bin/irssi -c irc

Then, once it's connected, type the following IRC command to join the crew channel:

/join #general

Crew Discussion

#crew is only for discussion about Crew, Crew projects, Systems projects, and related activities. Please, for the love of Pete, don't talk like AOL/AIM in #crew! We really appreciate it if you use English, however broken.

Frequent connecting & disconnecting is frowned upon on #crew. If you are going to use IRC frequently, please use a utility such as screen. You'll be glad you did.

To connect, use the same irssi command as above, and then /join #crew.

More Public Channels

• #perl - Discussion of almost anything Perl-related
• #linux-dev - Discussion of the Linux project
• #rss - Discussion of various Crew projects related to RSSFeeds

Starting Your Own Channel

Message the ChanServ and NickServ users for help -- they're administrative robots.

Robots

Please DO NOT run your own bots before asking permission on the channel you plan to run them on.

The source code and configurations for these bots are available via the Crew general repository: svn checkout https://svn.crew/svn/general

• bender - Bender is an infobot (specifically, flooterbuck) that can grab factoids from chat and later be queried for information.
• brain - A bot that provides the following features and more:
  • RT - Announces when tickets have been created or had their status or owner change in CrewRT
  • Shorten - Any URI longer than a certain number of characters that is mentioned in the chat rooms it monitors will be immediately run through the Metamark URL shortening service. The shorter URL will be spat back into chat along with the title of the URL if it's a page.
  • Subversion - Announces when commits have been made to the Crew general Subversion repository
• nopaste - A Pastebot that allows users to paste large amounts of text as a URL via http://crew.ccs.neu.edu:8080/ instead of in the chat. The bot announces the paste into the channel.
• wiki - A bot that Ian wrote to monitor wiki page creation and updates.

Note to IRC opers: If the servers become unlinked for some reason or other and they do not reconnect by themselves, log in with /oper and then if you are on thur do /sconnect brat or the reverse for brat

See also: Contact