one at a time please :)

toefraz · Post by **toefraz** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:24 pm

ok, i have a botnet of 3 bots, and i have a script that is loaded on all of them. It has features such as !op and !voice and !save and stuff like that. but i added a variable to the script that adds an abbreviation to the commands, so they are now !toe-op !toe-deop and !toe-save; and so on. and on each bot the abbreviation is different. but there still is !help on all of them. how do i get just one bot to respond to !help and after that one bot responds, the others dont notice the $nick

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:41 pm

by coordinating bots' actions via exchanging messages over botnet

toefraz · Post by **toefraz** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:14 pm

i figured that. do you know of any scripts that can show me how to incorporate that?

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:18 pm

no, but I can show you how, provided you are willing to incorporate my code in your script

toefraz · Post by **toefraz** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:18 pm

sure, ill give you credit for it too.

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:36 pm

no need for credit

it's really simple:

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set semaphor 0
bind pub - !help pub_help
proc pub_help {n u h c t} {
  if !$::semaphor {
    # help request not being handled by another bot
    # notify all bots and proceed
    putallbots helping 
    puthelp "notice $n :<help stuff here>"
  } else {
    # request already being handled, ignore it
    # clear the semaphor after small delay
    utimer 5 {set ::semaphor 0}
  }
}
bind bot - helping {set semaphor 1;#}

of course, this will work effectively only if your your botnet lag is less than the IRC lag (which is usually the case)

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:44 pm

naturally, this scriptlet can be elaborated to distinguish between help requests coming (almost) simultaneously from different users, but I don't think you are that picky

toefraz · Post by **toefraz** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:47 pm

where it says "helping", i can change that to anything right?

putallbots helping

bind bot - helping {set semaphor 1;#}

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:47 pm

indeed

toefraz · Post by **toefraz** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:48 pm

ok, thank you very much.

toefraz · Post by **toefraz** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:09 pm

I loaded the script on my bots, but when i do !help they all still respond

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:19 pm

see my remark about the lag

toefraz · Post by **toefraz** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:20 pm

anyway to get around it?

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:23 pm

put your bots on different servers, hoping that the lag will be diverse enough for this to work

or, appoint just one bot to answer help queries

toefraz · Post by **toefraz** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:32 pm

the switching servers didnt help. So ill just appoint one bot then. thanks for all your help