Unloading components without restarting

[BiLL]

Is there ANY trick or way to unload a component for netbots?
I have the problem I started all bots with

set nb_component(chanlimit) 1

but now I want to use:
set nb_component(chanlimit) 0

and I can't restart all bots. Is there any way to dynamically unload the chanlimit component?

[ppslim]

There is no way to unload it, and it will remain in memory until the bot is restarted.

However, to save even unloading it, simply set all your channel in the exclude setting.

[Moonster]

Could also try

.netchanset #Channel -l

[BiLL]

I tried to add " * " as exempt to the channel list.
But it didn't work too.
Maybe there is another way - except that * - to mark ALL channels as exclude-channel?

[ppslim]

This isn't a mask based settings. The docs say it should be a list of channels, seperate by spaces.

[slennox]

Setting cl_chans to an invalid channel will effectively stop the script from setting limits on your channel, and if you're going to do that you may as well increase the cl_timer setting to around 60 to reduce the script's impact on the bots' efficiency (although it's probably miminal anyway).

[Chrysalis]

I use unloadtcl.tcl to dynamically unload tcls although I have never used it unload a netbots component before, this doesnt require a restart although it wont always unload a tcl properly meaning a restart anyway but does usually work.

[ppslim]

netbots compnents will not work with this script.

netbots uses it's own load system, where you define a variable to load a component, rather than place a "source" line.

The quickest method, is to change the netset.tcl file to reflect what changes should be made, and issue a .restart