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.