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A useful trick if you're going to go the "ps | grep" route is to use egrep to avoid matching the grep itself.

Casual experimenting will lead to the discovery that "ps ux | grep ircd" will catch itself about half the time. Instead, I prefer to use something like this:

ps -uxww | egrep "[i]rcd ...

How does this work out in practice? There seems to be no consistency for non-ascii character support in irc clients, and I'm sure that support for non-ascii nicks is even more brittle than the mess we see with channel traffic.

I'd love to be able to reliably use utf-8 on irc, but it's just too ...

I presume the goal is to obscure the potential situation where all the IRCops on a network are idle and therefore unable to respond to abuse. Channels that don't have complete Op coverage are often subject to this sort of abuse where the lamers wait until all the channel ops go to sleep before ...