Startup another bot.

StaleJoke · Post by **StaleJoke** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:06 pm

I searched already, didnt find so posting

I need to know how can i make one bot startup another one which is in a different directory.

Please dont tell me to use contrab because i do not want the contrab to check it every some minutes and then start. I want to start another bot only as a result of some specific action.

I have tried this,

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catch {exec /home/otherbot/scripts/botchk >/dev/null 2>&1}

It does not work.

Any suggestions ?

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:41 pm

Try encolse the command within quotes "".

StaleJoke · Post by **StaleJoke** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:13 pm

This way ?

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proc sother {} {
   catch {exec "./home/otherbot/scripts/botchk >/dev/null 2>&1"}
}

Does not work.

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:28 pm

The first '.' (dot) after the quote is for? I only said quotes.

StaleJoke · Post by **StaleJoke** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:30 pm

With or without the '.' Either ways it does not work.

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:18 am

[exec] is not your Unix shell, it doesn't support redirection in the form of 2>&1 (it supports redir, but its syntax/semantics is a bit different)

so either try without it, or exec bash and pass the command with redir to it

StaleJoke · Post by **StaleJoke** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:43 pm

You lost me there.

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:47 pm

if [exec] is rocket science to you, give up on it and try something easier

I wonder what exactly is it that you didn't understand

Post by **caesar** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:47 am

Why don't you just create a shell script and call it via exec as demond sugested?