/msg help doesn't work

[Coyne]

Owkey, I have this weird problem. I can get help in the dcc, telnet and ctcp, but I can't get help when I type /msg <bot> help.

They allready told me to do rehelp, but that didn't work.
Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this ?

[Alchera]

# Many IRCops find bots by seeing if they reply to 'help' in a msg.
# You can unbind to prevent this.
unbind msg - help *msg:help

Look for the above in your conf and comment it out and restart your bot. The preference is to have it disabled for the reason as stated.

[Coyne]

This one is underneath it, that has to stay there right ?
bind msg m|m help *msg:help

But when I comment out the unbind ... thing,it still doesn't work.
It gives this error : No help available on that.

[Alchera]

In eggdrop.conf there is no 'bind msg m|m help *msg:help'.

You will probably have to restart your bot after the alteration.

[Coyne]

He still sais : No help available on that...

Could anyone give me a list of the help files that need to be in the help directory so I can overview them??

[Coyne]

Owkey I found it. Seems that the help files in "/help/msg" weren't there.
Could anyone tell me how this was able to happen ?
I had the same problem with my eggdrop on my own linux, cos this was on my shell.
All I did was download it(eggdrop1.6.17.tar.gz from your site) and follow the steps exactly as they were in the INSTALL file.

[Alchera]

It's good you found the problem.

As to why the msg help files did not end up in their respective folder after compile, I have no idea.

Good work!

[KCMike]

I had the same problem and I went to the /help/msg folder to find it empty. I also went to the original Archive I had installed from and viewed it in the archiver and it was also empty. Can you tell me the name of the files that should be there? I guess I will have to download a new file and extract those files into /help/msg. Or will I have to do a complete reinstall?

[YooHoo]

since the help files install themselves by default, I would suspect something fishy with the way you compiled eggdrop. Save any scripts you need, as well as your conf file. Type rm -rf eggdrop1.6.18 to remove the old eggdrop and its entire directory, then recompile. The complete instructions for installing eggdrop can be found here, follow the instructions to a T. I have done it hundreds of times, and know it can be done in under 5 minutes.

[KCMike]

Thanks, followed your instructions and the help files are now in their directories. Everything seems to be working well now.