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3.5 Broadcasts

One of the things commonly missed by administrators of dial-up systems, who are used to a multi-user Unix environment is the ability to send the user a 'message of the day' when he logs on.

Tircproxy addresses this by adding support for arbitrary broadcasts from the administrator to all connected clients. A 'motd' style broadcast can easily be defined (just create the file /etc/motd.irc). Arbitrary messages can be sent at any time by creating another file (/tmp/ircbroadcast) and sending the proxy the 'hangup' signal.


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