Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• General
  • What is Anope?
  • Where can I find Anope?
  • Does Anope run under Windows?
  • Can I send you questions without reading the FAQ, INSTALL or README files?
  • I need support for the XYZ protocol.
  • Your Services program doesn't do XYZ like DALnet (or other) Services. What's wrong?
  • I've got a great new idea for Services. Do you want it?
  • Examples of features we have been asked about and why we won't add (or haven't yet added) them, so don't ask us about them:
  • Can you help me?
  • Where is RootServ?
• Installation / Configuration
  • When I run "make", I get an error message like "missing separator", "Unassociated shell command", "Unexpected end of line seen", etc.
  • I get an error like "Makefile.inc not found".
  • I typed "./services" at the command line, but nothing happened!
  • Whenever I start Anope, I get a message on my IRC server saying "connection refused" or something similar, and Anope gives an error message from the server saying "Closing Link: ...".
  • My IRC server is giving me messages like "Connection to services.whatever.net[127.0.0.1] activated" and then "Access denied -- no N line". Why?
  • When I say "/connect services.*", it doesn't work!
  • Anope starts up okay, but if I try to register a nickname, it comes back with "Sorry, registration failed."
  • Anope reports (via /stats u or /msg OperServ STATS) a different number of users online than I get from doing /lusers.
• OperServ
  • Using the OperServ JUPE command results in server messages like "Server juped.server introduced by non-hub server services.my.net".
  • I can't use the ADMIN command to add Services admins, it tells me "Permission denied."
  • When I add an AKILL, the users matching it don't get killed.
  • Trying to use OperServ gives me "Access denied", but my nick is in the ServicesRoot directive and is registered, and I've identified for my nick.
  • When I used the OperServ RAW command, Anope and/or my network crashed, or did weird things! Please fix this bug!
  • I would like to have the list of the different RAW on OperServ.
  • I can't get /OS UMODES and /OS SVSNICK to work!
  • What is a Super-Admin? How does it work? Why might it not work?
  • How can i enable the OperServ RAW command?
• Bugs / Crashes
  • Anope always dies after about five minutes, saying "FATAL ERROR! Can't back up nick.db".
  • Anope crashed with a segmentation fault.
  • I've found a bug that's not mentioned here or in the README or BUGS files. What should I do?
  • My FreeBSD box complains about 'Shared object "nss_dns.so.1" not found'
• ChanServ
  • Anope's channel mode setting doesn't work. I can't set modes with OperServ, and every time ChanServ tries to set a mode, my server reverses the change.
  • Anope ignored the SET SUCCESSOR setting and deleted a channel when the founder expired.
  • How to auto voice all those whom join my #channel?
  • Channel options like RESTRICTED or SECUREOPS don't work. What's wrong?
• BotServ
  • How do I add bots to BotServ?
  • Why do kick triggers and fantasy commands fail to work with my Bahamut IRCd?
• Language
  • Anope complains in the logfile about being unable to load the default language.
  • Anope spricht kein Deutsch!, etc. (Anope doesn't speak my language!)
  • I selected a language other than English, but sometimes Anope sends responses in English instead.
• DevNull
  • What is the purpose of DevNull?