Icechat unable to find buddies in Alphachat IRC.
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SpriteFan3 · 2015-10-17 07:08

The IRC program that I use, Icechat, isn't able to find my buddies
when connecting to Alphachat channels. Instead, it says:

"ERROR: MONITOR: Unknown command"

This happened since someone named "Aaron" posted an announcement;
something about a server depool.

Now, I'm currently unable to tell if any of my buddies are online
right after connection. Is there a fix for this?

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ElementalAlchemist · 2015-10-17 17:03

You'll probably want to talk to the server operators about their
broken server.

MONITOR=64 appears in their 005, but trying to use it returns "unknown
command." IceChat is doing something reasonable by seeing MONITOR in
the 005 and trying to use it. The server, however, is not doing the
right thing and trying to pretend it supports something it doesn't.
If the server operators are worth anything (I'm not familiar with that
network, so I don't know), they'll work on fixing it (either by fixing
monitor support or by removing it from the 005).

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AaronAlphaChat · 2015-10-17 23:56

MONITOR was discovered to have a memory leak which allows remote
clients to eventually OOM and kill the server without detection. I
unloaded the module that implements it until we restart the IRCds.

As for why MONITOR is still in 005; it's hard-coded to be that way in
this particular IRCd (Charybdis), because the module that implements
MONITOR is also a core automatically-loaded module.

And as always, the channel for support inquiries is #help.

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SpriteFan3 · 2015-11-04 18:00

So... when you do expect, in my words, "the buddy system to work
again?"