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2011-12-07T11:53:54-04:00

Alternatively the path could be incorrect

Try the bash command pwd

Maybe it should be /usr/home/overwatch/overwatch.conf

In any event, it is normal to do what willyw suggests in the post above

Statistics: Posted by arfer — Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:53 am

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2011-12-07T11:34:46-04:00

Question:
Why use:
./eggdrop -m /home/overwatch/overwatch.conf

instead of just:
./eggdrop -m overwatch.conf
?

Does it behave the same, if you try it without the full path?

Statistics: Posted by willyw — Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:34 am

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2011-12-07T10:57:36-04:00

The lack of any other errors would suggest that your eggdrop is not able to open the config-file. Did you change anything since you got your eggdrop up'n'running? If you edited your config-file, have you double-checked the file ownership and permissions (file owned by overwatch and user has read-permissions at a minimum)?

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:57 am

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2011-12-07T02:37:52-04:00

Back to square one!?

So now i am like wtf is this going to take to get this ***** thing to work ?

http://i.imgur.com/nLuBW.png

Every thing is where its supposed to be and now this **** **** ****

Statistics: Posted by scrambled egg — Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:37 am

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2011-12-06T19:00:29-04:00

An ident-service is not mandatory. If such a service is running on the client's host however, most irc servers will use this to query the username of the connecting client, and use the result for the user@host.tld part of the online identity.

If there is no ident-service however, most irc servers will use whatever name the client provided as when sending the "USER" command during registration. The value eggdrop sends during registration is controlled by the username setting.

If you'd like to install an ident-service on your system, install the appropriate package using yum or any other package manager (I would generally recommend oidentd or identd)

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:00 pm

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2011-12-06T17:58:57-04:00

The username is set, but nobody said anything about a ident-service?

So how do i install the ident-service ?

Statistics: Posted by scrambled egg — Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:58 pm

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2011-12-06T17:07:11-04:00

That would be the "username" setting in your config-file (since you appear not to be running an ident-service on the system).

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:07 pm

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2011-12-06T16:09:21-04:00

I did run the command twice and twice it said nothing to do?

Rebooted the dedicated server entered the command again and it installed the files needed.

Continued to configure the bot and edited the .conf file and the bot is now running.

However i have one question remaining.

when i do a whois i get this: (~eggdrop@some.random.host) how can i change where is says ~eggdrop

I do not want it to say (~eggdrop@some.random.host) i want it to be something like (~shadownet@some.random.host) for example.

Statistics: Posted by scrambled egg — Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:09 pm

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2011-12-06T10:28:48-04:00

Did you install the tcl development package ("yum install tcl-devel")?

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:28 am

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2011-12-06T09:39:58-04:00

Removed the first install of eggdrop and created a new account for the bot.

I am not doing a "yum install eggdrop" this time i am attempting to compile the bot the normal way.

After running the ./configure command "Tcl cannot be found on this system"
Tcl is installed, but I cant find the path to the highlighted files as seen in the image below.

http://i.imgur.com/UvsOQ.png

Statistics: Posted by scrambled egg — Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:39 am

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2011-12-04T18:55:53-04:00

Have you made sure you're starting it from the correct directory yet?
As I stated earlier, the screenshot you posted clearly shows you trying to start your eggdrop from the root directory, not the user's home directory. If your eggdrop can't write files, it won't be able to save it's userfile either.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:55 pm

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2011-12-04T18:50:59-04:00

Sorry my bad, about the root.

I currently have problems with the log so i used # on all lines, so basic the is no logging atm.

The account i am running the bot from should already have all the needed privileges set so i don't understand why this is not working.

Oh well going to kill the bot for now and try again tomorrow.

Statistics: Posted by scrambled egg — Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:50 pm

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2011-12-04T18:35:01-04:00

I didn't write "root account", I wrote "root directory". Big difference there.
Best thing would be to start your eggdrop from the home directory of that user (the user you are starting it as). That directory should, provided that it was created properly, already have all the needed privileges set. Otherwize, you'd use the chown command to change ownership, and chmod to change user, group and other's access (read/write/execute).
Regarding the "Waiting for acknowledgement" - there can be any number of reasons why your eggdrop does not accept your dcc chat request. The reason is usually explained in the log files, you you're best of sorting the directory/permission issue first of all (the userfile most likely suffers the same issue as the pid and channel file).

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:35 pm

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2011-12-04T18:28:01-04:00

No the bot is not running on the root account, Its running on its own account.

I managed to remove the extra bot in channel by killing the eggdrop processes.

How can i change the file permissions in order to have it to write pid.overwatch file & reate channel file: overwatch.chan.

Also when ddc chat with the bot this is the reply: Waiting for acknowledgement...

Statistics: Posted by scrambled egg — Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:28 pm

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2011-12-04T17:54:39-04:00

In this case, the user account does not have write permissions in the current working directory. Looking at the screenshot you posted earlier, it would seem you are trying to start your eggdrop from the root directory / ?

To stop your processes, you'll need their PID's (process id). Unfortunately, your eggdrops were unable to write these down in the pid file due to the reason mentioned above. Thus, you'll have to use the ps command on your shell to find the pids of the eggdrops, and then kill them using the kill command.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:54 pm