Newbie (Desperate Measures, LOL) Help?

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Sat May 11, 2002 10:52 pm

Hi,

This is a (last attempt) for me to find (someone) that can manage to help me.

I am extremely new to trying to create a bot. I had gone to the following link:
http://www.castreal.com/macurious/free/ircbot/agbot/

to receive this irc bot. I don't even know (because it didn't say) if it was an (eggdrop irc bot), or just a simple (irc bot), *which I think it is just a plain irc bot* and what the darn difference is.
(Just an improved bot? is what I am thinking from the *what's and egg drop* page.)

I set up an account with hypermart.com and (did all the work to get the bot up and running) but then I found out that the place doesn't allow bots. (Even though the place I got the bot from directed me there.) Go the bot running through my mIRC and into my chat room, but everytime some dang popup ads came up on the screen from the page that the bot was running from the bot would exit the dang room. (usually about a minute).

Now, I purchased a domain to run my bot, FTP'd the info to the account like I was supposed to and (nothing)... *sigh** I am SO darn frustrated. I did the ascii transfer, all the info was correct because I had it already running once, but (nothing)..

I have been researching for what seems like forever, reading for 15 hours a day or more and I still don't even know what the difference between a (shell) and a (web host) program is. Do you need both to put an irc bot up and running?

Both of the (shells) and (hosts) offer cgi-bin's but for the life of me I just can't figure this out. I have drilling this forever and I am in need of some serious help.

If you could at all indulge me it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much,
Sky

The other thing I was wondering is that I also can't seem to find out any info is:
What's the difference between scgi-bin & cgi-bin
AND
I've looked through GOBS of shell account and web hosts (if they are even different, I don't know), and some over basic packages for irc bots, but then it says packages for IRC'd in other ones. What the heck does Irc'd mean anyway? I do want to RUN my bot on mIRC, so is that what that means?

I've found tons of great tutoring websites, gone through cgi trouble shooting and etc.
I am SO lost.

I've been looking into testing out trying to compile an eggdrop bot. So this is the reason I am here and for all my questions.

Please help.(someone?)

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Petersen · Post by **Petersen** » Sun May 12, 2002 12:34 am

big questions. basically you don't know wtf you want and dunno how the hell to get it, correct?

well, first of all, you can forget about cgi, and webhosts etc, as irc bots have nothing to do with these.
you can also forget about ircd's (internet relay chat daemons). these are irc servers, which you most probably do not want to even attempt running yourself.

eggdrop is a automated program (a software robot or (commenly known as a bot)) written in ANSI c, and designed for UNIX based systems. what this means is you need access to a UNIX system (eg, Linux, *BSD, Solaris etc) to compile (change the source code that its written in into machine readable code) and run it. An account on such a machine is known as a shell.

Shell accounts are accessed in a variety of ways. The most common are via telnet or SSH (an encryped version of telnet) - go to http://www.vandyke.com and download the client known as SecureCRT. Once logged into a shell, you will be at a text prompt (equivalant to a DOS prompt in some ways). Now you have to learn how to use the system before you try running a bot on it. There are plenty of books on basic shell usage (I suggest you go find one about Linux). Once you've learned about shell usage, then you should have no problem compiling and configuring a bot.

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Sun May 12, 2002 12:50 am

Thanks very much for your posting, you've been quite helpful.

Sky

By the way.. When you get a vHost, what exactly is that, the purpose and etc?

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Petersen · Post by **Petersen** » Sun May 12, 2002 10:32 am

vanity host. eg ph33r.my.elite.vhost.bitch.com

fox · Post by **fox** » Wed May 15, 2002 1:30 pm

I could give you a free shell if you wanna learn how to use unix and eggdrops etc... Just email me or go on irc.tormented-box.net