HowTo IRC from the kindle - Page 2

hawhill · 12-17-2012, 11:42 AM

Well, PATH is only relevant for finding executables. There's probably more involved, like e.g. UID, USER and such. You can call "set" without options to peek at the currently active environment variables.

Since "login" should spawn a login shell, the "autostart" file in question would be the "rc" file for your shell. But chances are it will be "~/.profile" for the user in question.

NiLuJe · 12-24-2012, 06:34 PM

A bit late to the party: some ircds will throw you out if your *IRC* username is root. irssi (and many *nix clients) happen to default to the *nix username, meaning root gets to be ~root (or root if there's an ident server in the mix) => kablooey.

qlob · 12-24-2012, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

A bit late to the party: some ircds will throw you out if your *IRC* username is root. irssi (and many *nix clients) happen to default to the *nix username, meaning root gets to be ~root (or root if there's an ident server in the mix) => kablooey.

that's why I launch irssi with -n <username> so that doesn't happen. I've been kicked for it before.

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12-17-2012, 11:42 AM	#16
hawhill Guru Posts: 769 Karma: 1646497 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle 3 WiFi	Well, PATH is only relevant for finding executables. There's probably more involved, like e.g. UID, USER and such. You can call "set" without options to peek at the currently active environment variables. Since "login" should spawn a login shell, the "autostart" file in question would be the "rc" file for your shell. But chances are it will be "~/.profile" for the user in question.

12-24-2012, 06:34 PM	#17
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 2,895 Karma: 2267781 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w & PW	A bit late to the party: some ircds will throw you out if your IRC username is root. irssi (and many nix clients) happen to default to the nix username, meaning root gets to be ~root (or root if there's an ident server in the mix) => kablooey.


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