Eggdrop
Ended up messing around with my Eggdrop bot tonight. Wanted to have it joining a different IRC server and do all that it does on its current server/channel. Well I quickly found out it needs a new instance to join a different server even though the layout of the config makes you think otherwise. That wasnt too hard.
I think I was in the top 200 bots for uptime and so didn't want to stop it to change some settings. Finally found the command I used before. DCC chat with the bot and issue .rehash. Unfortunately I had one slight mistake in the config and thus killed the bot. In this process I found that there is a botchk script in the eggdrop dir. Its used in conjunciton with cron to check if the bots running an start it if it isn't. So spent some time on this getting it right. I tested it and found it couldn't launch the bot. So checked it out, google turned up
this site that explained you had to replace the 3 $botnick instances with ./eggdrop $botnick. This doesnt surprise me, as I have to launch it with a:
cd ~/eggdrop;
./eggdrop botnick.conf
So made those changes and set it to check every 10 mins through cron using the 10,20,30,50 * * * * line.
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