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Weekend Project: Using an IRC Proxy to Stay Logged in from Anywhere

Posted by tuxchick on · 6 comments
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If you've ever missed an important IRC discussion because you happened to be between home and the office at just the wrong time, or if you regularly log on from a number of different locations and don't like juggling multiple IRC nicks, then you need an IRC proxy. The leading open source IRC proxy is Bip, a GPLv2 utility that is provided as a standard offering by most Linux distributions. This weekend, let's set up Bip and stop missing important discussions!

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Comments (6)

penguinist ·
I've solved the irc problem for myself by simply using "screen" to hold one or more irc sessions. It works like this:

On one system (example.com) do this:

  screen
  irssi (irc setup parameters)
Then from any other system do this:

  ssh me@example.com
  screen -raAd
That's it. Easy, and it works from any number of login points. I leave a screen session running on my home server and then access that session from office, mobile, ... Don't worry about forgetting to "log out" of the screen terminal, the "screen -raAd" automatically terminates any other unused connections.
azerthoth ·
and if I wanted to use xchat?
cr ·
apt-get install gesundheit

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

E: Couldn't find package gesundheit
gus3 ·
Please don't give them ideas, we already have enough stupid names for programs (right, helios?).

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