Re: Force IRSSI to use a particular nick only and retry infinitely until it gets that
Joel Esler <[email protected]> Fri, 17 May 2013 10:22:41 -0400
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--Apple-Mail=_D1F76206-62CC-42C9-8E44-1FEA0C8A3AE9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 You don't need a plugin to do that. IRSSI will auth to nickserv on it's = own. On May 17, 2013, at 1:15 AM, Abhijeet Rastogi <[email protected]> = wrote: > Hey, >=20 > I finally got the solution. I used sasl.pl to pre-authenticate to = freenode which solved the problem. >=20 >=20 > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:36 AM, tamouse mailing lists = <[email protected]> wrote: > This is typical behaviour of irssi (and many other irc clients): when > the nick you want to join with is already in use, it appends things to > the nick you specified until it finds one that is not in use. There > are settings in irssi to give an alternate nick if this happens. >=20 > The reason your desired nick is still in use on the freenode network > is that it hasn't had a chance to time out from being disconnected > yet. The thing to do when that happens is use freenode's nickserv > GHOST command, which you can read up on via /msg nickserv help ghost > when you're logged in. >=20 >=20 > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Abhijeet Rastogi > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I run IRSSI 24x7. I sometimes receive a message like "Irssi: No PONG = reply > > from server irc.freenode.net in 301 seconds, disconnecting" and when = it > > tries to reconnect, it says my nick already in use. After that, = instead of > > using "abcdefgi", it starts using "abcdefg1". It's annoying as I = don't know > > when it got changed. > > > > I already have my nick specified in irssi config but still it starts = using a > > new nick. Why? > > > > fn =3D { > > type =3D "IRC"; > > nick =3D "abcdefghi"; > > autosendcmd =3D "/^msg nickserv IDENTIFY accessed"; > > }; > > > > Is there anything that I can do about that? Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi) > > http://blog.abhijeetr.com >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Regards, > Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi) > http://blog.abhijeetr.com --Apple-Mail=_D1F76206-62CC-42C9-8E44-1FEA0C8A3AE9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You don't need a plugin to do that. IRSSI will auth to nickserv on it's own.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 17, 2013, at 1:15 AM, Abhijeet Rastogi <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hey,<br><br>I finally got the solution. I used <a href="http://sasl.pl/">sasl.pl</a> to pre-authenticate to freenode which solved the problem.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:36 AM, tamouse mailing lists <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> This is typical behaviour of irssi (and many other irc clients): when<br> the nick you want to join with is already in use, it appends things to<br> the nick you specified until it finds one that is not in use. There<br> are settings in irssi to give an alternate nick if this happens.<br> <br> The reason your desired nick is still in use on the freenode network<br> is that it hasn't had a chance to time out from being disconnected<br> yet. The thing to do when that happens is use freenode's nickserv<br> GHOST command, which you can read up on via /msg nickserv help ghost<br> when you're logged in.<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> <br> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Abhijeet Rastogi<br> <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br> > Hi,<br> ><br> > I run IRSSI 24x7. I sometimes receive a message like "Irssi: No PONG reply<br> > from server <a href="http://irc.freenode.net/" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a> in 301 seconds, disconnecting" and when it<br> > tries to reconnect, it says my nick already in use. After that, instead of<br> > using "abcdefgi", it starts using "abcdefg1". It's annoying as I don't know<br> > when it got changed.<br> ><br> > I already have my nick specified in irssi config but still it starts using a<br> > new nick. Why?<br> ><br> > fn = {<br> > type = "IRC";<br> > nick = "abcdefghi";<br> > autosendcmd = "/^msg nickserv IDENTIFY accessed";<br> > };<br> ><br> > Is there anything that I can do about that? Thanks in advance.<br> ><br> > --<br> > Regards,<br> > Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)<br> > <a href="http://blog.abhijeetr.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.abhijeetr.com</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Regards,<br>Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)<br><a href="http://blog.abhijeetr.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.abhijeetr.com</a></div> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html> --Apple-Mail=_D1F76206-62CC-42C9-8E44-1FEA0C8A3AE9--