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Not the simplest solution but you could probably use netcat or expect to connect to the telnet console on the bot and issue commands from there.. Good point. I don't know netcat or expect, but I will have a look. Me, I would just use a tcl script with a time bind, and have my shell/cron script crea...

rosc2112 has written a shell script for pisg that I found very usefull. Seach for "sendftp". As for the other, a simple announce script should do it; heaps in the archive. I don't think that works for me: First, perl - and therefore pisg - isn't available in the chroot environment eggdrop...

DA_ISCH wrote: [17:22] * ERROR: Eggdrop will not run as root!
what can i do?

eggdrop won't run as root - for security reasons. You should add a new user (e.g eggdrop) and start eggdrop from it. I myself put eggdrop in a chroot environment and run it as the restricted user eggdrop.

hth,
hotrs

Hi *.*. Is it possible, e.g. through a shell script, to let the bot say something? I want to use pisg for generating channel stats, but I can't use a eggdrop script because the bot has no access to the web directory (chroot environment). So my idea was to use a cron job for generating the stats - bu...

/* cdandexec.c change dir and execute usage: cdandexec dir cmd [arg] Version 1.0 (c) 2007 Björn Schreiber */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { // check argv if (argc < 3) { printf("usage: %s dir cmd [arg]\n", argv[0]); return EXIT_FAILURE; } // chdi...

[12:03] Can't load modules dns: Cannot open "/eggdrop/modules/dns.so" [12:03] Can't load modules channels: Cannot open "/eggdrop/modules/channels.so" [12:03] Can't load modules server: Cannot open "/eggdrop/modules/server.so" I had the same problem when I tried to chro...

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in the chat console.

But I still search a way to modify it permanent ...

hth,
hotrs

DragnLord wrote:you could also edit src/eggdrop.h before compile:

Yes, this was allready mentioned by nml375, but I want to avoid changing the source. And it doesn't solve the problems with other scripts using relative paths.

greets,
hotrs

Both solutions work. I can start chrootuid with a manipulated EGG_LANGDIR environment and I can put a "cd /usr/local/eggdrop" at the beginning of eggdrop.conf. The first solution could be a problem for other scripts if they use relative paths without a way to set them - I have to test chan...

Sure, you could always use the "cd" command to change current directory. I'm not too familiar with chrootuid. I don't suppose your eggdrop inherits the environment from where chrootuid were run? I will test both, this evening. And I will post the results here. Thx so far. greets, hotrs

There are a few other tricks that could be tried aswell, depending on how you start your eggie... I use something like this: chrootuid /chroot/eggdrop/ eggdrop /usr/local/eggdrop/eggdrop /usr/local/eggdrop/eggdrop.conf (eggdrop was installed in /chroot/eggdrop/usr/local/eggdrop) If I can use a spec...

As I recall, the only way of relocating language-files is either to edit the source (LANGDIR macro in src/eggdrop.h), or use the environment variable EGG_LANGDIR Thx for your answer. I allready have done a search BEFORE I post my question - but perhaps I missed the right key words. I don't want to ...

Hi *.*. I try to run eggdrop in a chroot environment with a restricted user account without a shell, therefore I can't execute a shell script to change the current directory. I try to change all relative paths to absolute paths, f.e. modules/ to /usr/local/eggdrop/modules/ which seems to work, but I...