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[l8night]

Hi,

I'm new to tcl scripting and have an idea for a script, and I would just like to know if it is even possible before I attempt to write it.

Scenario:

I have a shell account that will get deleted if it is the oldest of 300 accounts. To check how old your account is you simply go to a certain IRC channel and type the command ' howold username ' and a bot will tell how many accounts are older than yours. I want to write a script for my eggdrop that will do this 'howold' command every so often, and when a certain number of accounts are older than mine, the bot will send an email to notify me to renew my shell account. The only part I'm really not sure about is if you can add mail server functionality to a script.

Any response or direction will be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Jeff

[DragnLord]

You will first have to find out how the age is determined. Simply going by uid may not work as some (if not most) shell providers configure their adduser scripts to reuse uids.

On most shells, using TCL exec command to run commandline mail is possible.

[l8night]

The age of the account is determined like this----

There can only be 300 accounts total on the shell server.
You sign up for an account and there are 299 accounts older than yours. another person gets an account and now there's 298 accounts older than yours, when there are 0 accounts older than your account it's gets deleted.

[DragnLord]

[l8night]

ok ... I hope this makes since to you. I'm going to go and check the age of the account right now by going to this irc channel and typing in the command
howold myaccountname. This is the output that I got , At the moment there are 191 accounts older then "myaccount". That is how the age of my account is determined, by the number of accounts older than mine, or by the number of accounts newer than mine.

[DragnLord]

I suggest using a timer, or a time bind, to out put "howold account" to the channel.

You can use pubm bind to catch the reply based on "At the moment there are * accounts older then account", and suggest further creating a condition based on the uhost of the responding bot (to prevent some malicious user from simply creating a script that spits out "At the moment there are 1 accounts older then account" in reply to your bot's request).

Have the bot write the response it gets to a file, then use something like the following to send it:

[l8night]

Thanks a lot!! I'll take your suggestions and attempt to write my self a script.

I'll let you know how things go. Thanks again

Jeff

[l8night]

This is what I have so far:

[DragnLord]