Cant load eggdrop for some weird reason, help needed

help · Post by **help** » Sat Sep 29, 2001 12:24 am

i tried to run eggdrop for the first time so i did ./eggdrop -m <some name>

and what i got is

Eggdrop v1.6.6 (C)1997 Robey Pointer (C)2001 Eggheads
[22:07] --- Loading eggdrop v1.6.6 (Fri Sep 28 2001)
[22:07] * CONFIG FILE NOT LOADED (NOT FOUND, OR ERROR)

so bassically, it cant find the config file.... what should i name the config file that i am using in order for it to be loaded?

is that what that tells me? because i have an eggdrop.conf, a CONFIG (which i did 'cp eggdrop.conf CONFIG) and a config, wich i did the same thing to get and a conf file (samething aswell only instead of CONFIG i entered in conf.

i changed the eggdrop.advanced.conf (the conf wich i edited) and changed it to eggdrop.conf

is that what i was supposed to do? or ...

someone help.

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Sat Sep 29, 2001 12:43 am

The confgi files that come with eggdrop are baisclay templates.

You should copy them to a new file, edit them, changing th values to thoses needed and save it.

EG, if I copied eggdrop.advanced.conf, and saved it as my.eggdrop.conf

To launch the bot, you type "./eggdrop -m my.eggdrop.conf" - from now on though, I type it without the -m

help · Post by **help** » Sat Sep 29, 2001 12:47 am

yes, i see what you are saying but when i do that it says that i am missing the user file....

[22:41] * USER FILE NOT FOUND! (try './eggdrop -m eggdrop.conf' to make one)

and to do that it says to do THAT. but when i do, it doesnt do anything.

in the readme, it says to do something (which doesnt work) or to start it up and do stuff through it on IRC but you cant start the bot so how can you do stuff to it if its not on irc...

Reykov · Post by **Reykov** » Sat Sep 29, 2001 3:25 pm

Well, there's two ways. One, if you set up your conf file properly, it should connect to an irc server. Just connect to the server yourself and message the bot. You could also telnet in to your bot, provided you enabled it in your conf.

lucy · Post by **lucy** » Sat Sep 29, 2001 5:51 pm

if the modules aren't in the right directory, you get "* CONFIG FILE NOT LOADED (NOT FOUND, OR ERROR)". thats a common error, because the default is for the modules to be in the eggdrop directory, but the config file has them in the modules directory.

On 2001-09-28 22:24, help wrote:
i tried to run eggdrop for the first time so i did ./eggdrop -m <some name>

and what i got is

Eggdrop v1.6.6 (C)1997 Robey Pointer (C)2001 Eggheads
[22:07] --- Loading eggdrop v1.6.6 (Fri Sep 28 2001)
[22:07] * CONFIG FILE NOT LOADED (NOT FOUND, OR ERROR)

so bassically, it cant find the config file.... what should i name the config file that i am using in order for it to be loaded?

is that what that tells me? because i have an eggdrop.conf, a CONFIG (which i did 'cp eggdrop.conf CONFIG) and a config, wich i did the same thing to get and a conf file (samething aswell only instead of CONFIG i entered in conf.

i changed the eggdrop.advanced.conf (the conf wich i edited) and changed it to eggdrop.conf

is that what i was supposed to do? or ...

someone help.

Petersen · Post by **Petersen** » Sat Sep 29, 2001 6:13 pm

you are not specifying the config file right in your command line

eg

./eggdrop -m mybot.conf

or ./eggdrop -m blablah

making sure that the filename you specify is the exact name of the config file (case sensitive too)

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Sat Sep 29, 2001 10:28 pm

lucy, if you have the modules in the eggdrop directory, you are missing on of the install steps.

There is a good reason for haveing the modules directory set to what it is, in the config file.

If you install corectly, you can delete the compile dir, thus removing the source code, and other objects and freeing quota for later use.

lucy · Post by **lucy** » Sat Sep 29, 2001 11:17 pm

i know that. and maybe 1.6.x is different than older bots, but if you dont do make install dest=~/eggdrop at the end, the modules stay in the eggdrop directory, and ppl get that error. i wasn't saying it was a bad thing, i was just saying that was normally the problem when ppl get that error... although i didn't go into what he probably did wrong.. not do make install etc

On 2001-09-29 20:28, ppslim wrote:
lucy, if you have the modules in the eggdrop directory, you are missing on of the install steps.

There is a good reason for haveing the modules directory set to what it is, in the config file.

If you install corectly, you can delete the compile dir, thus removing the source code, and other objects and freeing quota for later use.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 07, 2001 5:48 pm

Make sure you read though all the Advanced config file...I know I made that mistake