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[goliath2k]

Non-matching handle lengths with botnick, they use 32 characters.

ok.. never ran into this before. tried searching for the error here with no luck. i've linked over 100 bots and have no clue what is causing this..
can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks.
G

[TCL_no_TK]

This means the bots have differant handle length. There is a script which you can try to see if it fixes it. Available from barkerjr.net.
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[goliath2k]

i did some looking and found out that's what it is..

i changed the length on one to see if that would do it.. i don't have acc. to the other bot's server atm.

i'll give that script a try and see what happens.

thanks

[TCL_no_TK]

The nick leght and handle lenght are defined in eggdrop<version>/src/eggdrop.h the default is 9. It pretty much means if all else fails, recomplie the offending bot (lowest* handle lenght) and try again. But good luck, althou i dont use that script, i've not heard anything bad about it so it should work.
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[wheels]

Line 63 of eggdrop.h which can be found in eggdrop.1.6.*/src
#define HANDLEN 9 /* valid values 9->NICKMAX */
on eggdrop change this line to
#define HANDLEN 32 /* valid values 9->NICKMAX */
Recompile eggdrop, I have tested this and it works fine

[YooHoo]

pretty sure that with eggdrop 1.6x that every bot in the botnet needs to have the same values for handlen in order to link.
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[TCL_no_TK]

Yep dose from what i remenber. never been to confidant with using botnets, all the linking and stuff tends to be a bit complicated. The most i could do was bot1 -> bot2 -> bot3(hub) lol thats pretty much it. The sharing of channels was a nitemare, at times i'd blame the +g flag not working. human error i guess. Anyway, just for a referance i thought i'd give mention this. as its on setting up a botnet and stuff.
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