Question about onchan and netsplits

silenus · Post by **silenus** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:33 pm

Does onchan see nicks which are absent due to a netsplit?

I have a trivia bot ("Bot_A" with an alternate nick "Bot_A_Backup"), and another bot ("Bot_B"), which is on the channel to do other things. Sometimes Bot_A stalls and it nice to have Bot_B force a restart. It issues a restart command when Bot_A has been silent for 3 minutes.

I do not, however, want Bot_B issuing restarts if Bot_A has disappeared due to a netsplit or for some other reason. I am using following code, but Bot B is issuing a restart during netsplits, when neither Bot_A nor Bot_A_Backup is on the channel.

If onchan is not seeing the absent nicks, then am I making some stupid error here?

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proc botsilent {} {
	if { [onchan "Bot_A" "#game"] || [onchan "Bot_A_Backup" "#game"] } {
		putserv "PRIVMSG #game :!trivia"
	}	
}

Post by **nml375** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:39 pm

onchan does indeed "see" netsplit'd nicks. You'll have to add an additional check for split'd nicks (see the onchansplit command for this, documented in the tcl-commands.doc file accompanying your eggdrop)

silenus · Post by **silenus** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:14 pm

Many thanks nml375 - I am just starting on writing these scripts - I had not noticed that command.