Problem with user file conversion

Howitzer · Post by **Howitzer** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:59 pm

I use eggdrop compiled by my shell provider and it was recently updated to v1.6.15. While updating the server went down and took my bot with it and as I tried to restart it I got the following message:

hylsy /opt/eggdrop % ./eggdrop /conffilepath/conffile.conf
Eggdrop v1.6.15 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2003 Eggheads
--- Loading eggdrop v1.6.15 (Wed Dec 15 2004)
(blabla)
* Old userfile, use 'tclsh scripts/weed <userfile> c' to convert

Then I did as it said, and

hylsy /opt/eggdrop % tclsh scripts/weed /userfilepath/userfile.user c

WEED 18jun97, robey

Reading /home/t/i/timojou/ethereal.user ...
Unknown userfile version! (not v4)

So, what's wrong? Is the old userfile invalid (why would it be?) or is there something wrong with the converter? Former version of eggdrop was v1.17 so it was a kind of old. Can the userfile be converted in any way or do I need to make a whole new file? The bot starts perfectly fine in userfile creation mode, but it's a helluva work adding 50+ users with neccessary flags and hosts...

demond · Post by **demond** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:57 pm

1.17? you mean 1.1.7? that's pretty ancient, you better start over with everything - users, scripts, modules

Howitzer · Post by **Howitzer** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:52 am

demond wrote:1.17? you mean 1.1.7? that's pretty ancient, you better start over with everything - users, scripts, modules

1.17 is direct copypaste from the old conf file, dunno if it's typo but I haven't edited it...

demond · Post by **demond** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:51 am

you haven't edited your conf? and you've been running precompiled ancient bot? you can hardly call yourself an eggdrop owner then

compile your own bot (ditch your shell provider if they wouldn't allow you to do so) and learn how to use it - it's quite different from the primitive version you've been using so far

Howitzer · Post by **Howitzer** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:03 am

Of course I have edited the configuration file on the neccessary parts, I just meant I haven't edited the part of the file where it says the version.

The bot is precompiled and I've been happy with that so far, so what's the point of compiling it again?

Anyway, if I understood correct, there's no way to convert the userfile of 1.17 (or 1.1.7 or whatever) to 1.6.15, so it seems that I have to create a new one...