ngIRCd release 17.1

--configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase Configuration variables "MotdFile" and "MotdPhrase" are mutually exclusive; so don't display content in both of them when running "ngircd --configtest": instead remember which one is beeing used.

Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit

Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly Not resetting the ID prevents the daemon from trying to re-establish outgoing server links when the DNS resolver failed to resole a hostname.

Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr stderr isn't redirected to the "error file" any more, so there is no point in trying to log to it ...

Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section

Manual pages: update and simplyfy AUTHORS section

Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled The information written to the "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err) when ngIRCd is compiled with debug code enabled isn't that usefule, so don't create this file at all.

README: Updated list of implemented commands

add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball

Merge branch 'numeric-329' * numeric-329: New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()

add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball doc/PAM.txt was not included in the release tarball. reported by Christoph Biedl.

New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands

Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()

ngIRCd release 17

Updated doc/Platforms.txt for upcoming release 17

contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent

contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa

Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf - Add generated sample-ngircd.conf to new .gitignore file, - refactor Makefile.am to generate sample-ngircd.conf on "make all", to clean it up on "make clean", and to install it to the correct place. - Make sure path names in sample-ngircd.conf are separated by "/".

doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir

ngIRCd Release 17~rc3

Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links If a hostname resolves to more than one IP address (round-robin DNS, IPv4 and IPv6) and an attempt to connect to the first address fails, ngIRCd should try to connect to the 2nd address, 3rd address etc. But because of a wrong variable used in the call to New_Server(), the wrong server structure has been used in further connection attemps which possibly lead to connection attempts to already connected servers.

Debian: Install default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins This is required for backwards compatibility when installing the -full or -full-dbg package variant: PAM is enabled now but no configuration present, so all login attempts would be denied ... Creating /etc/pam.d/ngircd including "auth required pam_permit.so" restores the old behaviour of allowing all connections.

Debian: update standards to 3.9.1; add libpam0g-dev dependency

Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable