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by kukhuvud
Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:06 pm
Forum: Eggdrop Help
Topic: So I needed to build an irc server.. [SOLVED]
Replies: 6
Views: 4341

The trick seems to be that the urpmi'd tcl & eggdrop aren't good enough to function. Downloading the eggdrop 1.6.18 tarball, patching it with ssl, and compiling it manually did the trick. Though, ./configure would complain that I had no tcl installed and this was solved by urpmi of libtcl8.4-dev...
by kukhuvud
Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:14 am
Forum: Eggdrop Help
Topic: So I needed to build an irc server.. [SOLVED]
Replies: 6
Views: 4341

One more thing

My servers in eggdrop.conf are set like so: # Eggdrop has trouble detecting it when it starts up. set my-hostname "my.dyndns.name" #set my-ip "my.external.ip" #set my-ip "my.internal.ip" If I uncomment "my.external.ip" at any point before eggdrop startup, I'm ...
by kukhuvud
Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:23 am
Forum: Eggdrop Help
Topic: So I needed to build an irc server.. [SOLVED]
Replies: 6
Views: 4341

Note: eggdrop cannot be run from root. ./eggdrop -n eggdrop.conf The above will display all connection details. CTRL + C will terminate. Thanks, that -n is badass! :) And the program makes it clear that it doesn't wanna run as root, so I run it as another user "me" :) This is the putput f...
by kukhuvud
Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:00 pm
Forum: Eggdrop Help
Topic: So I needed to build an irc server.. [SOLVED]
Replies: 6
Views: 4341

So I needed to build an irc server.. [SOLVED]

I built a Mandriva 2007 box, installed & configured the latest Unreal 3.2, and my friends and I can log into my server with no issues using various clients. Cool! Now I wanted to add a bot to this server. I urpmi'd tcl & eggdrop, set up eggdrop.conf and launched it... and it claims to be wor...