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2003-02-14T07:08:32-04:00

hi st - just wondering if you could double-check this for me - it is sending a msg to the channel, but it's doing it every minute rather than every hour.
I have changed the mesages and times for a different message each hour, but it just cycles through them every minute...thanks

set timemsg(01:00) "some message for 1am"
set timemsg(03:15) "some message for 3:15am"
set timemsg(15:00) "some message for 3pm... etc..."

bind time - "* * * * *" timed_message
proc timed_message {min hour day month year} {
global timemsg
if {[info exists timemsg($hour:$min)]} {
putserv "privmsg #sheep :$timemsg($hour:$min)"
}
return 0
}

Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Fri Feb 14, 2003 7:08 am

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2003-02-01T19:19:09-04:00

Well clearly there's no swedish A in my script, so you either made a typo or your editor saved in utf-8 mode. Try doing it again in a different editor (vi/vim is good).

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Sat Feb 01, 2003 7:19 pm

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2003-01-31T15:36:35-04:00

its a symbol that looks like an A - but a sweedish version...

editied it with KWrite on Mandrake Linux

didn't upload - it runs off a local machine here...

Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:36 pm

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2003-01-31T15:31:46-04:00

Along with that, there is normaly information, on what the invalid command was.

What editor did you use?

How did you upload it?

What mode did you upload it in. Binary or ascii?

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:31 pm

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2003-01-31T15:27:15-04:00

hi - thanks for that - I'm getting an invalid command error - theres a rouge symbol somewhere!

also, the script is trying to post a message every minute instead of only the times specified - so another problem there...

Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:27 pm

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2003-01-31T11:59:12-04:00

Really? It looks like it will work, although I haven't tested it. Try adding putlog statements to see where it's going wrong. Put one right after the global timemsg part says putlog "testing $hour:$min in [array names timemsg]" and one inside the 'if' statement saying putlog "inside the if" or something.

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Fri Jan 31, 2003 11:59 am

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2003-01-31T03:26:34-04:00

hi again - that's not working for me - just wondering if it worked for you?

have copied/pasted into the TCL what you wrote - and put my channel in there, but no luck so far...

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Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:26 am

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2003-01-30T14:42:02-04:00

You almost had it! You changed the right parts, the only other thing you had to do was change timemsg($hour) to timemsg($hour:$min). (I also changed the name of the proc because hourly_message doesn't make sense anymore.)

Code:

set timemsg(01:00) "some message for 1am"set timemsg(03:15) "some message for 3:15am"set timemsg(15:00) "some message for 3pm... etc..."bind time - "* * * * *" timed_messageproc timed_message {min hour day month year} {  global timemsg  if {[info exists timemsg($hour:$min)]} {    putserv "privmsg #sheep :$timemsg($hour:$min)"  }  return 0}

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:42 pm

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2003-01-30T05:12:29-04:00

yes...sorry - I have a few other timers for other various times - not only on-the-hour

sorry again...

Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:12 am

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2003-01-30T05:10:00-04:00

You did say "24 msgs - one for each hour - 00:00 thru 00:23 - all saying something different..." and didn't mention half-hours or anything. This is only turning out to be tricky because you are being rather unclear! So are you saying you want this to work for *any* time?

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:10 am

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2003-01-30T03:25:24-04:00

sorry, actually that piece of script above dosn't work correctly - it seems to post the msg to the channel once a minute every minute...

I had to kill the bot to get it to stop...

this is turning out to be very tricky indeed!

Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:25 am

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2003-01-30T03:15:16-04:00

hi again - it's working - if I also have a msg for a some times at the half-hour, would this be right...?

set timemsg(30:15) "some message for 3.30pm... etc..."

bind time - "* * * * *" hourly_message

Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:15 am

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2003-01-30T02:22:28-04:00

hehe thanks st - yeah I did try a few things - looks like I was sort of on the right track - just didn't use the brackets...

thanks again! will give this a shot now =)

Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:22 am

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2003-01-30T02:17:56-04:00

Aww, you should have tried it yourself first. In the long run it pays to find things out. Ppslim already gave you 99% of the code!

Code:

set timemsg(01) "some message for 1am"set timemsg(03) "some message for 3am"set timemsg(15) "some message for 3pm... etc..."bind time - "00 * * * *" hourly_messageproc hourly_message {min hour day month year} {  global timemsg  if {[info exists timemsg($hour)]} {    putserv "privmsg #sheep :$timemsg($hour)"  }  return 0}

No guarantees that it works, I don't have time to test. But it probably will. I'm good like that.

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:17 am

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2003-01-29T23:29:39-04:00

anyone able to help me finish solving this one...?

Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:29 pm