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INstalling TCL

2011-11-14T14:21:22-04:00

Well, unless you can run your process for an unlimited amount of time, your eggdrop won't do you much good.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:21 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-14T14:04:43-04:00

I like the support to this thread. This is what they replied:

Hello,

Yes, it is very possible that our server is terminating the process. Here are the timeout limits we have for processes run on the server:

Apache/Web (HTML/PHP/Downloads): With Dedicated IP: 12 Hours | Without: 10 Minutes (up from 5 minutes)
SSH/Shell: With Dedicated IP: 2 Hours | Without: 1 Hour
Cron Jobs: With Dedicated IP: 30 Minutes | Without: 30 Minutes
Deamons: With Dedicated IP: Unlimited | Without: 10 Minutes

Thank you,

Brandon

Statistics: Posted by Khilborn — Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:04 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-11T11:52:43-04:00

I might be wrong, but to me, it would seem your host provider thought you were asking about running an irc server - thus permitting inbound connections. In this case, your eggdrop irc robot is trying to do outbound connections.

This still does not answer whether your host provider has some service terminating user background processes... (to be honest, I can't think of any other good reason your eggdrop would be receiving TERMINATE signals...).

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:52 am

INstalling TCL

2011-11-11T10:31:29-04:00

THis is what my host responded:

Thank you for contacting us. What port is mIRC chat server using? If it is a non-standard port (not port 80 or 443 as an example), it will require a dedicated IP so we can open that respective port. If this is the case and having purchased the dedicated IP, please reply with the port #, direction (Inbound or Outbound) and protocol (UDP or TCP), we will get that taken care.

Dedicated IP's are sold for $2.50 a month (prorated). Since they are purchased to match the length of your hosting contract, you are charged $2.50 a month for the number of months remaining in your hosting account.

Example: $2.50 a month x 21 months remaining on account = USD $52.50 total due at purchase.

IMPORTANT:
Your site may appear down for 1 to 4 hours while your new IP resolves internally. After that, standard DNS propagation rules still apply and your site may not be visible for 24-48 hours while global propagation occurs.

If you would like to purchase the dedicated IP, please log into the cPanel and click the Dedicated IP tab along the top. Follow the wizard's guide to purchase.

Statistics: Posted by Khilborn — Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:31 am

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T18:34:17-04:00

Have you verified with the system admins that they do permit background processes such as eggdrops? It's most common to have a cronjob or other monitoring process terminating user processes that try to fork into background, when irc robots and similar kind of programs are not permitted.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:34 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T18:30:09-04:00

I tried your suggestion and still doing the same thing

I have to be so close to getting this setup

Statistics: Posted by Khilborn — Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:30 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T18:24:53-04:00

It would seem some mechanism on your shell is sending your eggdrop an instruction to terminate. You could try setting the die-on-sigterm setting to 0, though chances are that whatever mechanism is killing your eggdrop will simply resort to the KILL signal instead.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:24 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T18:21:19-04:00

The log file show:

[15:20:03] * TERMINATE SIGNAL -- SIGNING OFF

Statistics: Posted by Khilborn — Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:21 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T18:12:25-04:00

I went through the config settings accordin to http://www.egghelp.org/setup.htm

When I load my bot

-bash-3.2$ ./eggdrop -m Khilbot.conf

Eggdrop v1.6.21 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2011 Eggheads
[15:10:03] --- Loading eggdrop v1.6.21 (Wed Nov 9 2011)
[15:10:03] Listening at telnet port 50000 (all).
[15:10:03] Module loaded: blowfish
[15:10:03] Module loaded: dns
[15:10:03] Module loaded: channels
[15:10:03] Module loaded: server
[15:10:03] Module loaded: ctcp
[15:10:03] Module loaded: irc
[15:10:03] Module loaded: notes (with lang support)
[15:10:03] Module loaded: console (with lang support)
[15:10:03] Module loaded: uptime
[15:10:03] Loading dccwhois.tcl...
[15:10:03] Loaded dccwhois.tcl
[15:10:03] Userinfo TCL v1.07 loaded (URL BF GF IRL EMAIL DOB PHONE ICQ).
[15:10:03] use '.help userinfo' for commands.
[15:10:03] Writing channel file...

STARTING BOT IN USERFILE CREATION MODE.
Telnet to the bot and enter 'NEW' as your nickname.
OR go to IRC and type: /msg Khilbot hello
This will make the bot recognize you as the master.

[15:10:03] === Khilbot: 1 channels, 0 users.
Launched into the background (pid: 19984)

When I am in another MIRC script and in the channel I am telling the bot to join, he is not there nor does that nick exist on the server I am connecting to. Any ideas?

Statistics: Posted by Khilborn — Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:12 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T17:16:21-04:00

That did it. Thanks for guiding me through this. I really appreciate it.

Statistics: Posted by Khilborn — Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:16 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T17:12:36-04:00

Declare should work well enough. However, you should not include the actual filename in the path:

Code:

declare -x LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home1/cfladsco/TCL/lib"

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:12 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T17:09:02-04:00

I typed export and got a list of variables:

declare -x LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home1/cfladsco/TCL/lib/libtcl8.5.so"

Statistics: Posted by Khilborn — Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:09 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T17:08:16-04:00

No, on the server where you intend to start the process.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:08 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T17:07:00-04:00

Do you mean the environment variable on my local machine? This is all on a server....

Statistics: Posted by Khilborn — Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:07 pm

INstalling TCL

2011-11-09T17:08:38-04:00

Since you are using a local/private library, which is not in the default library search path, you'll have to use a few tweaks each time you run your eggdrop binary. What you need to do, is set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point to the directory where you installed your tcl library.

Using bash, the command would be (remember to replace /path/to/tcl with the path where you installed your tcl library - libtcl8.5.so):

Code:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/tcl

Once you've set this variable, you can start eggdrop in the usual manner.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:57 pm