kernel.tcl script

3zzy · Post by **3zzy** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 6:50 am

The one in the tcl scripts section stopped working recently.. =(

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:08 am

Does it give you any errors? what did it do and what does it do now exactly?

3zzy · Post by **3zzy** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:03 am

It's a skript that took the info about the latest linux kernels from http://www.kernel.org . It doesn't give any errors or anything at all, nothing happens. Before it used to send the info vie notice.

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 4:25 pm

please post a link to the script. the site it contacts has probably changed the way it works therfore the script is requesting the wrong information.

3zzy · Post by **3zzy** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 1:51 pm

http://www.egghelp.org/cgi-bin/tcl_arch ... oad&id=177

kernel.tcl
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CyberBrown
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Fetches info about the last kernel with the command "finger @www.kernel.org" and displays it on the channel.

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 5:05 pm

Right then i looked at the script and did manually what it was doing for you here is the results.

*** Looking up www.kernel.org
*** Connecting to 204.152.189.116
*** Connection established
The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.22
The latest prepatch for the stable Linux kernel tree is: 2.4.23-pre5
The latest snapshot for the stable Linux kernel tree is: 2.4.22-bk25
The latest beta version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.0-test5
The latest snapshot for the beta Linux kernel tree is: 2.6.0-test5-bk14
The latest 2.2 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.2.25
The latest 2.0 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.0.39
The latest prepatch for the 2.0 Linux kernel tree is: 2.0.40-rc6
The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels is: 2.4.22-ac4
The latest -ac patch to the beta Linux kernels is: 2.6.0-test1-ac3
*** ERROR: (WSAECONNABORTED) Software caused a connection abort

*** Looking up www.kernel.org
*** Connecting to 204.152.189.116
*** Connection established
*** Connection closed

It seemed to cut me off half way through the list the first time. then the second time i tried it, it ignored me completely.

Its not the script it works fine its the site. Try contacting their admin about it.
webmaster@kernel.org or support@kernel.org should hopefully put you in touch with the right people.

^DooM^

3zzy · Post by **3zzy** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 5:17 am

Right, I have sent them and e-mail, now waiting for reply. Thanks for the help!

egghead · Post by **egghead** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 5:26 am

From http://www.kernel.org :

August 21, 2003: Please don't use finger.kernel.org for any sort of automatic monitoring. The number of automatic bots hitting this port is causing the finger daemon to shut down more often than not. The same information is available from http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner.

Note that kernel.tcl uses finger to retrieve the info.

egghead · Post by **egghead** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 9:17 am

An attempt to fix this problem can be found on:

http://members.fortunecity.com/eggheadtcl/ -> kernel.org.tcl.txt

The script can either use HTTP (default) or finger.

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 9:48 am

egghead, that is how i tried to retrieve the information in my previous post with finger command. I guess too many people are using that script which has forced them to shut down any finger requests in the future.

egghead · Post by **egghead** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:03 am

Actually finger works fine for me. But yes, they advise to use http instead of finger.

3zzy · Post by **3zzy** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:39 am

egghead
Is there any way to make your script notice the results to a user, not give them off to channel ?

egghead · Post by **egghead** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:01 pm

3zzy wrote:egghead
Is there any way to make your script notice the results to a user, not give them off to channel ?

A hack is possible. If you want the results being messaged to the user who triggered the request, you need to make 2 modifications.

1. Change

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set chan [string tolower $chan]

to

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set chan [string tolower $nick]

2. Change

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if { ![validchan $channel] } { continue }

to

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### if { ![validchan $channel] } { continue }

or remove that line at all.

3zzy · Post by **3zzy** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:21 pm

Thanks, It worked great!