---
name: "hybserv"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "hybserv"
version: "1.9.2-4.1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hybserv"
---

# hybserv(8)

daemon which provides IRC services

## NAME

hybserv — daemon which provides IRC services

## SYNOPSIS

**hybserv**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **hybserv** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

**hybserv** is an IRC Services server, a daemon  which connects to an IRC server and provides services such as  NickServ and ChanServ to users, allowing them to register their  nicknames and channels (the latter to prevent the notorious \`channel  takeovers' that were rampant on EFnet, which to date still does not   provide IRC services.)

**hybserv** appears like any other IRC server  on a network and all of the services nicknames act as clients with  customizable user flags (typically +oi, although they do not need  any special flags to function correctly.)

**hybserv** provides, in its default configuration, NickServ, ChanServ, MemoServ,  OperServ, StatServ, and Global, which are  described individually below.

NickServ allows for registration of nicknames; it can enforce  this registration on users who do not own the nicknames they use.  Owners of nicks can also 'ghost' their nickname with their registration password,  in case someone has taken possession of it or it is a 'ghost' that  has not timed out yet.

ChanServ allows users with registered nicknames to register channels;  this registration is enforced with an 'access list' which allows the owner to specify who automatically gets operator status in a channel,  or voice, or halfops if supported by the IRC server. ChanServ can also  maintain a blacklist of sorts where users under certain hostmasks will automatically be kicked and banned from the channel.

MemoServ is simply a message service for people who have registered  nicknames - they are able to send static messages to each other for later  reading.

StatServ and Global play minor roles - Global displays the logon.news (in /etc/hybserv) and allows operators to easily send global messages to all users, and StatServ is much like a glorified ircd STATS call.

## OPTIONS

hybserv does not take any arguments unless invoked as [showchans(8)](/showchans/8.md) or [shownicks(8)](/shownicks/8.md).

## SEE ALSO

[showchans(8)](/showchans/8.md), [shownicks(8)](/shownicks/8.md), [ircd-hybrid(8)](/ircd-hybrid/8.md).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Joshua Kwan \<joshk@triplehelix.org\> for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU Free Documentation  License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free  Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover  Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.