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Welcome to iroffer 1.4.b03, by PMG (released December 12th 2005)
--- Info ---
iroffer by David Johnson (PMG)
Copyright (C) 1998-2005 David Johnson
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
or view it online at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
All files except src/iroffer_md5.[ch] are covered by the GPL.
src/iroffer_md5.[ch] (written by Colin Plumb in 1993 and modified
by Ian Jackson in 1995) are in the public domain.
--- Website and Mailing List ---
Visit the iroffer web site http://iroffer.org/
Have you joined the iroffer mailing list? see the web site
--- How to Contact the Author ---
To obtain an up-to-date email address please goto http://iroffer.org/contact.html
--- What is iroffer? ---
iroffer is a software program that acts as a fileserver for IRC. It
is similar to a FTP server or WEB server, but users can download
files using the DCC protocol of IRC instead of a web browser.
Unlike similar programs, iroffer is not a script, it is a standalone
executable written entirely in c from scratch with high transfer
speed and effeciency in mind. iroffer has been found to transfer
over 50MByte/sec over a gigabit ethernet connection.
--- Supported Platforms ---
Linux
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, NetBSD
Solaris/SunOS
UP-UX
IRIX
Digital UNIX
MacOS X Server
MacOS X
AIX
Win95/98/NT/2000
All other platforms have not been tested, but will probabily work
--- Documentation ---
Documentation about iroffer is included on the website, http://iroffer.org/
--- To Compile ---
Run the "Configure" script by typing "./Configure"
then type "make".
no errors or warnings should appear when compiling
A sample config file is provided.
--- Why use iroffer to offer? ---
- extremely fast dcc transfers
- extremely low cpu usage, and reasonable ram usage
- its a program not a script that is slowed by a bulky irc program
- only completed transfers are counted
- supports dcc resume
- set max amount of transfers per hostname
- user friendly error messages for users (no "clamp timeout")
- allows a pack to be designated as a "high demand" pack which can
have special limitations and its own separate queue
- supports virtual hosts
- auto-send feature, send a pack to someone when they say something
- auto-saves xdcc information
- remote administration via /msg or DCC CHAT
- bandwidth monitoring, shows last 2 minutes bandwidth average
- Allow sending of queued packs when using low amounts of bandwidth,
comes in handy when all slots are filled with people transferring
1k/sec, will keep sending out queued items while bandwidth usage
is under a specified amount
- Background or Foreground mode. background mode does not require
screen and is cronable
- Chroot support (run iroffer from inside a chroot'ed environment)
- overall and pack minspeed
- maximum bandwidth limiting, when set, iroffer will not use more than
the set amount of bandwidth (keeps your sysadmin happy)
- can set different maximum bandwidth limits depending on time of day
and day of week (keeps your sysadmin very happy)
- logging
- auto-ignores flooders
- support for direct, bnc, wingate, and custom proxy irc server connections
- ignore list
--- What files can I offer? ---
- Your channel's rules or FAQ
- Pictures, Music, Programs, Shareware/Freeware, Programs you have
written, etc...
- Help elevate overloaded ftp and http servers by mirroring content
for your channel's members
- Note: Be sure to consult and follow the appropriate copyright
statement, distibution policy, and/or license agreement before
offering any content you didn't create yourself
--- How to let colors work while using screen ---
create a file in your home directory named ".screenrc", and put the
following lines in it:
termcap vt100 'AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm'
terminfo vt100 'AF=\E[3%p1%dm:AB=\E[4%p1%dm'
--- How To Use Cron ---
Edit the iroffer.cron file's iroffer_dir, iroffer_exec, and
iroffer_pid variables
then crontab -e and place the following line in the editor
*/5 * * * * /full/path/to/iroffer/iroffer.cron
--- Signal Handling ---
iroffer will handle the following signal:
SIGUSR1 (kill -USR1 xxxx) jumps to another server (same as admin command "jump")
SIGUSR2 (kill -USR2 xxxx) re-reads config file (same as admin command "rehash")
SIGTERM (kill xxxx) shuts down iroffer (same as admin command "shutdown")
--- End of README ---
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