eggdrop start problem!

[youko]

it says when im starting eggrop

admin@youkoshare:/home/youko/ircbot$ ./eggdrop -m 4:20.conf

Eggdrop v1.6.21 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2011 Eggheads
[01:29:14] --- Loading eggdrop v1.6.21 (Wed Apr 18 2012)
[01:29:14] Module loaded: blowfish
[01:29:14] Module loaded: dns
[01:29:14] Module loaded: channels
[01:29:14] Module loaded: server
[01:29:14] Module loaded: ctcp
[01:29:14] Module loaded: irc
[01:29:14] Module loaded: transfer (with lang support)
[01:29:14] Module loaded: filesys (with lang support)
[01:29:14] Module loaded: notes (with lang support)
[01:29:14] Module loaded: console (with lang support)
[01:29:14] Module loaded: uptime
[01:29:14] Loading dccwhois.tcl...
[01:29:14] Loaded dccwhois.tcl
[01:29:14] Userinfo TCL v1.07 loaded (URL BF GF IRL EMAIL DOB PHONE ICQ).
[01:29:14] use '.help userinfo' for commands.
[01:29:14] Creating channel file
[01:29:14] Couldn't create channel file: 4:20.chan. Dropping
[01:29:14] ERROR writing channel file.


STARTING BOT IN USERFILE CREATION MODE.
Telnet to the bot and enter 'NEW' as your nickname.
OR go to IRC and type: /msg 4:20 hello
This will make the bot recognize you as the master.

[01:29:14] === 4:20: 1 channels, 0 users.
* Warning! Could not write pid.4:20 file!
Launched into the background (pid: 22918)

thanks in advance for your help!

[thommey]

It might be the ":" in your filename(s) that's causing trouble, it depends on the underlying filesystem. Does it work if you change it? As far as I know there's no IRC network that allows ":" in nicknames anyway... You could explicitely change the names for the pidfile/chanfile/userfile if you really want 4:20 to be the (botnet-)nick.