           Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) concerning Services
           ====================================================

0. What is Services?

	Services is a package of services for IRC networks.  See the README
	file for more information.


1. Where can I find Services?

	The latest version can always be found at the official Services
	distribution site:

	ftp://ftp.dragonfire.net/software/unix/irc/


2. It doesn't work on my Windows machine!

	You're very observant.  If you want to run Services, get a decent
	operating system, like Linux or FreeBSD.  Services does not and
	will not run under Windows, because I have better things to do with
	my time than port a decent program to a half-brained buggy
	operating system.


3. But I like Windows!

	Tough luck.


4. Can I send you questions without reading the FAQ or README files?

	Sure you can.  It's one of the easiest ways I know to get your
	messages ignored.


5. Whenever I start Services, I get a message on my IRC server saying
   "connection refused" or something similar.

	You need to configure your IRC server to accept Services as an IRC
	server.  For most IRC servers (those based on the irc2.x
	distribution), that involves adding two lines like the following to
	your ircd.conf file:

	C:127.0.0.1:password:services.whatever.net::99
	N:127.0.0.1:password:services.whatever.net::99

	See the example ircd.conf provided with most distributions for the
	meaning of each field.


6. There is no question number 6.


7. Services always dies after about five minutes, saying "FATAL ERROR!
   Can't back up nick.db".

	Make sure that the user Services runs as has write access to the
	data directory, and that the data directory actually exists (the
	latter shouldn't be a problem if you ran the configure script).
	This means Services needs write and execute permission on the data
	directory itself and execute permission on every parent directory
	of the data directory.


8. Services starts up okay, but if I try to register a nickname, it comes
   back with "Sorry, registration failed."

	Make sure you've selected the correct IRC server type in the
	configure script.  If you try all of them and none work, then
	probably your IRC server is not compatible enough with any of the
	supported variants.  The recommended server is DALnet 4.4.4, which
	is also present at the official Services distribution site.  The
	Undernet server has also been reported to work with Services.
	Support is present for base irc2.x distributions (with or without
	the TS8 addition), but has not been tested.
