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[SOLVED] Won't connect?

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[SOLVED] Won't connect?

Post by Suxen »

Here's a great mystery that I seem entirely unable to solve. My configuration file is called run.eggdrop, just so I'd have something easy to remember.

From the command line:
# ./eggdrop run.eggdrop

It says:
Launched into the background

Yet I never see it connect and join the irc network and channel that it is set up to. However, if I use:
# ./eggdrop -n run.eggdrop

It connects to the network just fine! Why would this happen?
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Post by BeBoo »

Try telnetting to your bot after you run that first command and see if it's outputting anything or if you can even connect to it. Not sure what the -n flag is.

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Post by Suxen »

Can't telnet into it either for some reason.

-n stops it running in the background so everything is sent to the console instead
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Post by nml375 »

You are having problems with threaded tcl-libraries not being properly detected as such, hence forking into background pretty much freezes the eggdrop.

Another reason for this kind of problems would be that there are multiple tcl-libraries installed on the system. However, with many recent linuxdistributions, this is an issue with libraries however.

A quickfix is to edit the config.h file after running ./configure, and defining the macro "HAVE_TCL_THREADS" to 1.
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Post by Suxen »

Right on, thanks!! I felt like I was starting to go insane :D

For whatever reason, telnetting to the bot still doesn't seem to want to work even though the configuration is exactly as before, but I can live without it.
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Post by Alchera »

Suxen wrote:For whatever reason, telnetting to the bot still doesn't seem to want to work even though the configuration is exactly as before, but I can live without it.
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Post by Suxen »

Can't seem to get a response from it that way either, which is why I defaulted to telnet (which used to work, before I went through recompiling everything). But it's still not the end of the world having to work without it.

Edit: Nevermind, the telnet mystery was that for some reason something else ended up taking up the port. Go figure. All is now good and well again :D
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