NAME

App::Pocosi - A command line tool for launching a POE::Component::Server::IRC instance

DESCRIPTION

This distribution provides a generic way to launch a POE::Component::Server::IRC instance.

• Prints useful status information (to your terminal and/or a log file)

• Will daemonize if you so wish

• Supports a configuration file

• Offers a user friendly way to pass arguments to POE::Component::Server::IRC

• Has an interactive mode where you can issue issue commands and call methods on the IRC component(s).

CONFIGURATION

class:    POE::Component::Server::IRC
log_file: /my/log.file
pid_file: /my/pid.file
lib:      /my/modules
flood:    false
auth:     true

config:
  servername: myserver.com
  motd:
    - "Welcome to this great server"
    - ""
    - "Enjoy your stay"

plugins:
  - [OperServ]

listeners:
  - bindaddr: "127.0.0.1"
    port:     10023

denials:
  - ["12.34.56.0/24", "I don't like this IP block"]

exemptions:
  - "12.34.56.78"

operators:
  - username: jack
    password: foo
    ipmask:   ["127.0.0.1", "1.2.3.4", "192.168.1.0/24"]
  - username: locke
    password: bar
    ipmask:   "10.0.0.*"

auths:
  - mask:     "*@example.com"
    password: hlagh
    spoof:    jacob
    no_tilde: true

peers:
  - name:     otherserver.com
    rpass:    hlaghpass
    pass:     hlaghpass
    type:     r
    raddress: "127.0.0.1"
    rport:    12345
    auto:     true

The configuration file is in YAML or JSON format. It consists of a hash containing the options described in the above code example. Only config is required.

lib

Either the name of a directory containing Perl modules (e.g. plugins), or an array of such names. Kind of like Perl's -I.

pid_file

Path to a pid file, as used by most daemons. If is specified, App::Pocosi will refuse to run if the file already exists.

log_file

Path to a log file to which status messages will be written.

class

The IRC server component class. Defaults to POE::Component::Server::IRC::State.

config

This is a hash of various configuration variables for the IRCd. See PoCo-Server-IRC's configure for a list of parameters.

plugins

An array of arrays containing a short plugin class name (e.g. 'OperServ') and optionally a hash of arguments to that plugin. When figuring out the correct package name, App::Pocosi will first try to load POE::Component::Server::IRC::Plugin::YourPlugin before trying to load YourPlugin.

listeners

An array of hashes. The keys should be any of the options listed in the docs for PoCo-Server-IRC-Backend's add_listener method.

auths

An array of hashes. The keys are described in the docs for PoCo-Server-IRC's add_auth method.

operators

An array of hashes. The keys are described in the docs for PoCo-Server-IRC's add_operator method. You you can supply an array of netmasks (the kind accepted by Net::Netmask's constructor) for the 'ipmask' key.

peers

An array of hashes. The keys should be any of the options listed in the docs for PoCo-Server-IRC's add_peer method.

denials

An array of arrays. The first element of the inner array should be a netmask accepted by Net::Netmask's constructor. The second (optional) element should be a reason for the denial.

exemptions

An array of netmasks (the kind which Net::Netmask's constructor accepts).

OUTPUT

Here is some example output from the program:

$ pocosi -f example/config.yml
2011-05-22 15:30:02 Started (pid 13191)
2011-05-22 15:30:02 Constructing plugins
2011-05-22 15:30:02 Spawning IRCd component (POE::Component::Server::IRC)
2011-05-22 15:30:02 Registering plugins
2011-05-22 15:30:02 Added plugin PocosiStatus_1
2011-05-22 15:30:02 Added plugin OperServ_1
2011-05-22 15:30:02 Started listening on 127.0.0.1:10023
2011-05-22 15:30:02 Connected to peer otherserver.com on 127.0.0.1:12345
2011-05-22 15:30:02 Server otherserver.com (hops: 1) introduced to the network by myserver.com
^C2011-05-22 15:30:18 Exiting due to SIGINT
2011-05-22 15:30:18 Deleted plugin OperServ_1
2011-05-22 15:30:18 Deleted plugin PocosiStatus_1
2011-05-22 15:30:18 IRC component shut down

AUTHOR

Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson, hinrik.sig@gmail.com

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2011 Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.