Eggdrop not sending data to channel

Materialised · Post by **Materialised** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:53 pm

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone ever had a problem with their eggdrop suddenly not sending data to the channel? It was workign fine a couple of hours ago, and now it wont send data. I know it sees the data as I use a tcl script to display the bot uptime. When i type !uptime I can see that the bot see's it via dcc chat window. It just wont respond public. All private message commands are still working. And no I havent edited the config files at all. It runs from my machine and no other users have access. The notice commands work fine, it just cant message data to the channel.

My system is freeBSD 5.1, it worked fine until a couple of hours ago, and for some unknown reason stopped working. and the network it sits on is Dalnet (if that matters)
I hope someone can tell me whats wrong or give me a work around.
Thanks in advance for any replies I recieve

Mick

Post by **caesar** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 12:04 am

Is the channel moderated and the eggdrop is not oped? Any errors from that script or from another in the party line with it?

Post by **CrazyCat** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:49 am

Or are the messages similar?
If yes, they could be enqueued...
just type .clearqueue all and see if your bot works better

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 4:54 am

In adition, typeing "ps x" at a console may give interesting results.

If you see lots of zombie programs, your uptime script has reached a "too many open files" state.

You would need to a adjust your script to make sure it closes the file descriptor after using it.

Materialised · Post by **Materialised** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 5:14 am

Ok thanks for your replys.

I tried the .clearqueue all command, and this was the output
<Five-Times> .clearqueue all
<Bastards-> Removed 0 messages from all queues.
<Bastards-> [10:07] #Five-Time# clearqueue all

Still no joy im afriad

Another suggestion was the channel being moderated.
Nope it isnt, and the bot is oped.

here is the output of my ps -x everything looks normal to me.

bash-2.05b$ ps -x
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
0 ?? ZW 0:00.00 (esdplay)
50392 ?? Ss 0:09.83 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 21
50394 ?? Ss 0:11.76 gnome-smproxy --sm-client-id default0
50396 ?? S 0:03.76 gnome-settings-daemon --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME
50407 ?? S 0:13.19 xscreensaver -nosplash
50418 ?? Ss 1:42.84 /usr/X11R6/bin/metacity --sm-client-id=default1
50422 ?? Ss 0:55.86 gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2
50424 ?? Ss 2:11.56 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default3
50426 ?? S 2:07.36 /usr/X11R6/libexec/wnck-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAF
50428 ?? S 0:18.96 /usr/X11R6/libexec/mixer_applet2 --oaf-activate-iid=O
50434 ?? S 0:01.95 /usr/X11R6/libexec/notification-area-applet --oaf-act
50436 ?? S 2:58.80 xchat
50440 ?? I 0:00.02 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/amsn
50441 ?? S 3:18.25 /usr/local/bin/wish8.4 /usr/local/lib/msn/amsn
50443 ?? I 0:00.02 /bin/sh ./run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin
50454 ?? S 8:41.44 ./mozilla-bin
50458 ?? S 0:53.14 evolution-1.4
50460 ?? S 0:02.53 /usr/X11R6/libexec/evolution/1.4/evolution-alarm-noti
64381 ?? S 22:45.79 gnomemeeting
65069 ?? S 0:00.63 /usr/X11R6/libexec/nautilus-throbber --oaf-activate-i
65125 ?? S 0:03.72 /usr/X11R6/libexec/nautilus-text-view --oaf-activate-
66900 ?? Ss 0:02.87 /usr/local/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-acti
67002 ?? I 0:17.53 /usr/X11R6/libexec/evolution/1.4/evolution-wombat --o
67091 ?? S 0:03.09 gyach
67102 ?? S 0:00.92 gnome-terminal
50902 p0 Is+ 0:00.06 bash
62378 p1 Is+ 0:00.02 bash
64235 p3 Is 0:00.02 bash
64243 p4 Is+ 0:00.02 bash
64881 p5 Is+ 0:00.05 bash
64923 p5 S 0:11.46 ./eggdrop bastards.conf
67104 p6 Ss 0:00.02 bash
67105 p6 R+ 0:00.00 ps -x
50368 v0 I 0:00.01 -bash (bash)
50369 v0 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
50381 v0 I+ 0:00.01 xinit /home/mick/.xinitrc -- -nolisten tcp
50387 v0 S 0:03.87 gnome-session
50389 v0 S 0:08.56 /usr/X11R6/libexec/gconfd-2 7

I know it isnt a tcl issue, as tcl files which dont require data to be sent directly to the channel work fine.

I hope this helps narrow down the problem.

And thanks again

Materialised · Post by **Materialised** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 6:39 am

Ok I look like a total fool now.

You know what my problem was.... My BNC was relaying channel data to me, and I mean any of it, I could get private messages and notices, I was wondering why it was so quiet. lol

Anyway thank you all for your kind replys

Mick