Excess flood !!!!

[Fluxizm]

A friend wrote this simple script for me, which has a public trigger which prvmsg's the requester with a list of the clans rules, in total there are 10 individual rules or prvmsg's.

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set our_chan "#hgh"

bind pub - %clanrules clanruleshandler

proc clanruleshandler {nick uhost hand chan text} {

  global our_chan

  if {$chan != $our_chan} {
    return 0
  }
  putserv "privmsg $nick : 1......."
  putserv "privmsg $nick : 10......."

But if too many people trigger the request, then the bot quits due to excess flood, which isn't too clever really. I know that to an extent I could get round this by having one block of text to encompass all 10 rules, but would rather have the 10 individual rules, each on their own. Is there a simple way I can get round this excess flood problem?
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[Papillon]

just add a utimer which disables the command for a certain number of seconds

[ppslim]

That or use the puthelp rather than putserv command.

tcl-commands.doc lightly explains this situation.

[Fluxizm]

Thanks for the replies. I opted for the easier method of the puthelp, which so far has worked a treat.

However, Papillon, can u give me a small example of your solution? For my future referance please?

[ppslim]

There are three timers provided by eggdrop.

timer, utimer and the time bind.

Both timer and the time bind are called/check once per min, on a definable scale (IE, 2 mins, 3 mins, 50 mins). The time bind has more control over when it is first called.

utimer is a secondly timer, which again, can be called on a definable scale (1 second, 2 seconds, 50 seconds).


The time bind is used mainly in scripts that want to do somthing often, but do not need to manage the next time it is called.

timer and utimer are setup on the fly, and are ideal to call a single command, in a short time, mainly once.

Both timer and utimer use the same format

call <time> <command>

Where "call" is either timer or utimer.

To post your messages above, you could use

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utimer 1 [list putserv "privmsg $chan :hello all 1"]
utimer 2 [list putserv "privmsg $chan :hello all 2"]
utimer 3 [list putserv "privmsg $chan :hello all 3"]
utimer 4 [list putserv "privmsg $chan :hello all 4"]

This sends the message once per second.

However, these messages will be put in the queue like all other messages, and may not display right away.

It is far simpler and quicker to use puthelp, which is likely to display the messages just as quick as the timer method.

[Papillon]

I agree with ppslim... puthelp is the better solution..
btw that was not what I meant ppslim.. the utimer solution
I thought about something like:

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set our_chan "#hgh" 

bind pub - %clanrules clanruleshandler 

proc clanruleshandler {nick uhost hand chan text} { 

  global our_chan 
  
  if {$chan != $our_chan} { 
    return 0 
  } 
  unbind pub - %clanrules clanruleshandler 
  utimer 30 [ bind pub - %clanrules clanruleshandler ]
  putserv "privmsg $nick : 1......." 
  putserv "privmsg $nick : 10......." 

this should unbind the %clanrules command for 30 secs...

[Fluxizm]

Once again, thank you both for the replies