Can't seem to get a response from it that way either, which is why I defaulted to telnet (which used to work, before I went through recompiling everything). But it's still not the end of the world having to work without it. Edit: Nevermind, the telnet mystery was that for some reason something else ...
Right on, thanks!! I felt like I was starting to go insane
For whatever reason, telnetting to the bot still doesn't seem to want to work even though the configuration is exactly as before, but I can live without it.
Here's a great mystery that I seem entirely unable to solve. My configuration file is called run.eggdrop, just so I'd have something easy to remember. From the command line: # ./eggdrop run.eggdrop It says: Launched into the background Yet I never see it connect and join the irc network and channel ...