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bot not saving flags

2002-09-14T09:49:41-04:00

nope, already thought of that.
set allow-resync 0
as ive said in other posts, it seems to be intermittent, we can go for a week or two without having any problems, then we get someone moaning about not being able to get ops. and thats even if no bots have been killed/unlinked or any changes at all.
the only time we dont have this problem is when we use an older version of eggdrop, which is what we're going back to.
thanks to everyone that tried to help

Statistics: Posted by kain — Sat Sep 14, 2002 9:49 am

bot not saving flags

2002-09-13T19:03:03-04:00

Oh, yes, i just remembered, users are discouraged to use resync buffer. In the past it showed to be often buggy. It might be just your case. Do you use it?

Statistics: Posted by darko`` — Fri Sep 13, 2002 7:03 pm

bot not saving flags

2002-09-13T16:51:19-04:00

1, no
2, no
3, no
and if you read through all the posts made by me and anyone else who was trying to help, you'll see that the information is all there.

Statistics: Posted by kain — Fri Sep 13, 2002 4:51 pm

bot not saving flags

2002-09-13T13:59:06-04:00

This is one messy discussion (in terms of lack of information) that i wasn't able to quite understand most of the times, but i am having a feeling that there are several possible glitches with your setup:

1) You've setup botnet in a way that usefile changes must be entered via hub so any changes will not be accepted if they were made on leaf.

2) You have setup your leafbots to discard their own userfile records in favour of those sent by the hub. Since whatever you changed on leaf wasn't accepted on hub because of 1) then obviously next time your leaf downloads the user file from the hub, you will not find your changes.

3) Channel flags are +shared in .conf file but infact are -shared in .chan file thus overriding the original +shared.

Statistics: Posted by darko`` — Fri Sep 13, 2002 1:59 pm

bot not saving flags

2002-09-13T17:14:02-04:00

ive narrowed the problem down slightly.
ive found that user flags are only lost when the leaf bots connect to the hub bot and download the userfile, eg, if i dont have a bot linked to the hub and i .die it, when it comes back the flags are still there, yet if it is linked and i .die it (or after some time) the flags are gone.
even if i unlink a bot that has saved user flags then relink it they're gone.

ive also gone through all the bot flags and checked they have the right ones, hub on leaf is set "botattr hub +ghp" and, leaf on hub is set "botattr +gsl", so after all that i still dont know.
btw, this is still intermittent, i just unlinked and relinked a few of the bots
and the user flags were ok

any further ideas ?

Statistics: Posted by kain — Fri Sep 13, 2002 11:22 am

User Flags & Ports

2002-09-03T12:16:44-04:00

I've been having somewhat the same problem. Add bots to a botnet and they add fine then link fine. I .save all the settings... but after they link.. the ports get changed to 3333 for some reason. I am bout to install a later version of eggy and if it works then I am going to report the bug to eggdrop.

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Sep 03, 2002 12:16 pm

bot not saving flags

2002-09-03T11:51:40-04:00

ppslim,
i tried with 4 bots, 1 hub bot and 3 leaf bots, i did as you said and added flags back one by one waiting a little to see if anything went wrong, i didnt see anything go wrong, and as usual they lost flags, channel and global, so i set the "private-global" to "mn" (removed "o") which sorted the global +o being lost, but i noticed that one of the leaf bots had a global +o, yet when it joined a channel it wasnt being oped. i killed them all and started with an older version 1.6.10 (even though i had this problem on and off back then) and the same thing happened again.
the only thing ive had loaded diferent from when i was on 1.6.8 to now is slenox's netbots scripts, and somehow i dont think its due to those(maybe, but i doubt it)
the only thing i know is, when the leaf bots connect to the hub and download the user file they lose certian peoples channel flags.
also, going back to the problem i had with bans not being shared, if i have 2 bots on one channel, and i ban someone, after a certian ammount of time the bot that didnt place the ban removes it and then the bot that did puts it back, and on the party line of the bot that removed it, all you see is "Channel ban *!*@lame.org on #channel rejected - channel not shared." yet the channels are all set to "+shared" in the .conf files
anyway, i hope i get this sorted, its getting too much hard work on my fingers readding all them flags back.

Statistics: Posted by kain — Tue Sep 03, 2002 11:51 am

+o getting lost

2002-08-25T08:42:26-04:00

hi, ive just been reading this thread and i thought id contribute im having the same problem as kain, i can add my all my bots with +o then if i .nethash most of the +o flags get lost, so when i +bitcht the bots start deoping each other!! Ive been onto all the bots and .chattr bot +o to add them back but give em another 3-4hours and they are gone again!

Its a real pain

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sun Aug 25, 2002 8:42 am

bot not saving flags

2002-08-14T20:52:04-04:00

forgot to add:

flags were also lost after a .die
had to readd them all :/

Statistics: Posted by kain — Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:52 pm

bot not saving flags

2002-08-14T20:50:43-04:00

just a quick post:

the hub and leaf bots are now saving eachothers flags, ie: their keeping the +o's
I changed the "private-globals" to "mn" and removed the "o"
but normal users are still losing their +ofgv's
btw: 1.6.10 test running

Statistics: Posted by kain — Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:50 pm

bot not saving flags

2002-08-14T08:49:13-04:00

My problem is almost the same, but quite precise. The leaf bot loses all hub information as soon as anyone restarts. Does'nt happen with users tho, and I've channel specific users.

Check out my topic 'Leaf loses hub data!'
However, I *just* checked this topic, long after I posted mine. Or else, I wud've continued here itself.

Statistics: Posted by Yourname — Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:49 am

bot not saving flags

2002-08-14T08:44:34-04:00

Thanks ppslim, i'll start that test tonight with 3 extra bots, 1 hub and 2 leaf bots. At the moment I am already using the lastest version (1.6.12)
First i'll try what you said with 1.6.12, then with 1.6.10, i'll post here in a day or two, probably two days, one day for each test

Statistics: Posted by kain — Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:44 am

bot not saving flags

2002-08-14T08:30:13-04:00

We are one step away from submitting this as a bug.

Before doing so, the following things are sugested.

First job, check it's not a quota problem. Eggdrop might be loosing user-records upon saving. Not all OS's report errors, as such, eggdrop can continue with problems, until it dies.

A minimum is to upgrade to the most receint stable version of eggdrop (1.6.12).
Remove all flags from bots, not required (IE, only the flags required to link and share (+gs for the leaf on the hub, and +ghp for the hub on the leaf)). No user flags except +b.
Add flags one by one back, making sure that you add the +l last (Waiting time between each one, to see if anything is happening).

If this fails, I sugest saving user, channel, notes and config files to a backup location. Starting the bot in userfile creation mode, without any scripts. Linking/sharing and waiting to see what happens.

And before we get to the end, try downgrading to version 1.6.10. Due tot he half-op support being added, it may have added somthing (no offence wcc). This will rule this problem out.

While these take time, and can be frustrating. They will help rules out any script, corrupted files or anything else related to the configuration, thus leaving eggdrop to blame.

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:30 am

bot not saving flags

2002-08-14T07:51:42-04:00

Here you go:

.whois bot
[12:40] tcl: builtin dcc call: *dcc:whois kain 14 bot
[12:40] #kain# whois bot
HANDLE PASS NOTES FLAGS LAST
bot yes 0 abflo 13 Aug (linked )
BOT FLAGS: gls
HOSTS: *!bot@bot.quakenet.org
ADDRESS: 101.102.103.104(edited)
users: 3377, bots: 3366

Here's a .whois from that bot to the hub:

.whois hub
[12:41] tcl: builtin dcc call: *dcc:whois kain 11 hub
[12:41] #kain# whois hub
HANDLE PASS NOTES FLAGS LAST
hub yes 0 abfho 05:08 (linked )
BOT FLAGS: ghp
HOSTS: *!hub@hub.quakenet.org
ADDRESS: 101.102.103.104(edited)
users: 4422, bots: 4411

Statistics: Posted by kain — Wed Aug 14, 2002 7:51 am

bot not saving flags

2002-08-14T07:23:07-04:00

On thus HUB, do a ".whois leaf", where leaf is the bot it reported that message about.

Paste the output here, changing only the information required to maintain security.

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Wed Aug 14, 2002 7:23 am