To get started using znc, run "znc --makeconf" to interactively create a configuration file (~/.znc/configs/znc.conf). Once you have znc set up, you may want to start the daemon on boot, with this in a user's crontab: @reboot znc To connect to znc from your irc client, you will use a command like this: /server : Note that the username and password are sent as the irc server password.