This is activated whenever a numeric message of that number arrives. The legal range of values for <numeric> are from 001 to 999. Numeric messages are special replies send by the server to the client in the raw irc protocol. They are useful to intercept if you are writing a service using ircII. For more details about what numbers represent what messages from the server, please see the irc server source code. The parameters for the action are as follows:
$0 name of the server who sent the message
$1 number of numeric message
$2- parameters (depends on the numeric message)
See Also: set/show_numerics