[CALUG] irc client in Fedora 12

[Walt Smith]

You're right... server ports.

Foggy brain from repeatedly trying various combos

of empathy setup, where I setup "connection to server"

and typed in port 6667....  hence I went to another universe

to open the ports.   me bad.



also, F12 has a /usr/lib/pidgin but neither of the F12 distro 

list of packages I have on my HD has a  rpm package

nor does 

$>locate pidgin     # find a  execute file.



And why wouldn't empathy work ???   However, I'm not

adamant about using it.   Perhaps a bit wondering how to fix it.


thanks guys.



Walt.........


Celebrating over 13,000 emails in my Yahoo Inbox !

--- On Wed, 7/20/11, Matt Rechkemmer <calug-list at aesir-corporation.com> wrote:

From: Matt Rechkemmer <calug-list at aesir-corporation.com>
Subject: Re: [CALUG] irc client in Fedora 12
To: "Walt Smith" <waltechmail at yahoo.com>
Cc: "calug at unknownlamer.org" <calug at unknownlamer.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 9:19 PM

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 04:40:23PM -0700, Walt Smith wrote:
> 
> I can't get empathy to connect to a irc server.  The server is
> irc.efnet.net/UnallocatedSpace
> 
> I have turned firewall off using the gui firewall and se should be in
> permissive.  (how can I check se for permissive for ports ?) (Before I
> turned firewall off ( disabled), I set trusted ports 6667 for both
> tcp/udp.)

Unless your firewall is filtering outbound connections, too, you shouldn't
need to "allow" 6667.  Only IRC servers will listen and accept connections
on 6667.

> I have looked thru the F12 basic and DVD full directories for the string
> "irc" looking for another irc rpm package in the distro but dont see one.
> So, is there another irc client in the F12 distro ?  If not, where is one
> that WILL work !

Try Irssi (http://irssi.org/).
It's a CLI client, but it's really powerful and great to pair with 'screen'.

Regards,

--
Matt Rechkemmer
calug-list at aesir-corporation.com

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
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