Scripts/Settings will not transfer

anonymity · Post by **anonymity** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 11:23 pm

netbots: sending settings/scripts to <botnick>
netbots: no files sent to <botnick>

Any idea why this could be happening? I would really like to be able to update my net but there are too many bots to update each file manually.

Thanks.

tainted · Post by **tainted** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 2:35 am

Glancing at the code, I would have to say that it timed out, ie took too long. Try sending to just one bot at a time. See .nethelp netupdate for the syntax if you aren't sure how to do this.

anonymity · Post by **anonymity** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 6:41 pm

Nope, that can't be it. The "netbots: no files sent to <botnick>" portion is displayed just a second after the hub tries to initiate the send.

Thanks for the idea though.

anonymity · Post by **anonymity** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 6:48 pm

Even though I have my hub added to nb_ctrlbots I think that is the reason why it failed. I took out all the bots I had listed in nb_ctrlbots from netset.tcl on the bot I was going to send too and then it sent with no problem.

Wonder if I could be on to something. I don't know enough about TCL to go messing with Slennox's code though.

anonymity · Post by **anonymity** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 7:12 pm

I made a mistake. I shouldn't have underestimated slennox. Apparently his script is smart enough to check to see if the files have changed instead of just blindly sending the file. The reason it wouldn't work was because the files were identical. The moment I changed anything in the bot's settings file I was trying to send too, it sent without problems.

Score: slennox 1 | anonymity 0

Nice coding slennox. (c:

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 7:54 pm

Thats probably an idea to add.

Not just "not files to send", but "files identical" or "no files require sending"

However, I am not sure if a major overhaul of the netupdate system is in progress.

tainted · Post by **tainted** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 8:06 pm

Yeah, a "force" type arg would be nice also. What if the size of both files is the same, but you had a one letter typo in the origional?

anonymity · Post by **anonymity** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 8:41 pm

I suppose I could give it a try... but not immediately

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 9:26 pm

Thye possibility of cherckign file hash's would be better.

tainted · Post by **tainted** » Tue Dec 24, 2002 12:04 am

True enough.

anonymity · Post by **anonymity** » Tue Dec 24, 2002 9:41 pm

Hey slim, how come I haven't seen you around damama's channel?

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Tue Dec 24, 2002 9:46 pm

OMG - the minyons are everywhere

I don't have chance to get around much these days. When I do get on IRC, I just idle, and I just can't be botherted to launch the client just to do that.

My bots are still about. It's allmost 11 months since I did any work on them, though I have made a yearly payment for them within this time. I love my bots, I know they are well made, and I know they are well maintained by damama herself.

Seeing as it's Xmas, I will hop onto IRC right now (Click here to see me)

I am avauilable here, and I do pop on now and again, so if ya ever need any help, just call.

anonymity · Post by **anonymity** » Tue Dec 24, 2002 10:23 pm

Damn, you didn't wait long did ya? HEHE.

Yea, her bots are well maintained, I was actually considering linking nets with her. Although there's a possibility of me changing botpacks if my friend ever gets done the freakin' coding and they won't be able to link to each other when that happens.

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Wed Dec 25, 2002 5:56 am

it's also very likely that you woulnd't be allowed to link in when running any botpacks.

Post by **slennox** » Wed Dec 25, 2002 7:27 pm

ppslim wrote:Not just "not files to send", but "files identical" or "no files require sending"

"no files sent" is a bit ambiguous and I've modified the message.

ppslim wrote:However, I am not sure if a major overhaul of the netupdate system is in progress.

I wasn't sure either and had to check the script (scary, isn't it?

). It has been about a year since I touched it. From what I can see, I did a lot of general fiddling and added base64. It can send binary files now.

I had planned on finishing it up this holiday season (originally, it was supposed to be finished up a last season) but so far I haven't been able to "get into it", so to speak. The number of years since I've run a botnet in a real-world, busy channel is growing, and being a practical type of scripter I find it difficult to do quality work on it in an abstract sense.

tainted wrote:Yeah, a "force" type arg would be nice also. What if the size of both files is the same, but you had a one letter typo in the origional?

netupdate uses md5 checking and should update a file even if you just change one letter.

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Scripts/Settings will not transfer

Scripts/Settings will not transfer

That's not it.

May just have found a bug.

Nevermind

Good Question

hey slim