Re: [Unreal-users] <user> did a /userhost on you

[The N. (Stskeeps) <cm...@dr...>]

Heya Jonathan

Should be able to work with removed (well it will ;)). codemastr: can ya
make an unrealircd.conf option on the /userhost message?. If you need more
help, you are welcome to ask.


--Stskeeps



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On Sat, 6 May 2000, Jonathan Morton wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently became an oper on a server run on UnrealIRCd, running my 
> usual client, Ircle (Macintosh).  Ircle maintains info about users 
> on-channel rather more aggressively than most, by performing periodic 
> /userhost commands - this returns away status, oper status and 
> hostmask info, which may change over time.
> 
> However, fellow opers have started complaining about the frequency of 
> "*** chromatix did a /userhost on you" messages that appear whenever 
> I am around, unless they set themselves -W and lose information about 
> /who and /whois requests done on them.  As I can't see any use for 
> this message, but can see uses for /who and /whois detection, I did a 
> search through the Unreal code and found the following fragment:
> 
> if (IsWhois(acptr) && IsOper(sptr))
> {
>      sendto_one(acptr, ":%s NOTICE %s :*** %s did a /userhost on 
> you.", me.name, sptr->name, sptr->name);
> }
> 
> So, if the target is set +W and the _sender_ is opered, this message 
> is sent to the target?  I wonder if that is the correct behaviour, 
> never mind whether it's needed...
> 
> Any thoughts on my removing this from our copy of Unreal?
> 
> Using version 3.0 Morrigan(fix) - both the main server and my test 
> machine are running Linux on ix86.
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