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[Sib]

Hi,

This is a very weird problem I'm having with my eggdrop. But first, let me start by telling you that I'm using the last version available and that I'm running it on a Debian 7 server.

Before I started adding scripts to the eggdrop, it would normally connect on the specified server and the chan I had setup. And that, automatically.

Now, even though it is setup for that specific chan, it just won't come in automatically. If I do want to make him come there, I have to go in partyline. And then when I do .+chan #chan, it says that the chan already exists, which is the case. But still, it dosn't make him go there. To have it go there, I have to do .-chan and then .+chan. Then he comes. So I do .save, .restart to see if the problem will be fixed but nope, same as before, he just doesn't join.

I checked in the bot.chan and just so you know, it's not on +inactive. Oh, and when I didn't use that previous trick, I tried using the partyline command to have the -inactive mode and then, magically, the bot arrived.

I even tried uninstalling and recompiling everything, followed by a complete server restart: no change. I just dont understand what changed between before and now. CHMOD, maybe?...

This is my bot.chan by the way:

[caesar]

I don't see anything in the settings to make it behave like you mentioned, so the culprit must be one of the scripts you load. Add one at a time until you find it and either post on the forum about it maybe we can fix it or find an alternative.
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[Sib]

I tried running it without the extra scripts loaded (which work, though) and the bot automatically joins the chan.

Tried to add each and every of those scripts once at a time and the problem comes back. Could it be the encoding of the file that messes up the bot or something? I modify my conf and tcl files with Notepad++ but I'm not quite sure that the encoding chosen is right or not. But a weird thing is that even if those scripts have that undesirable consequence, they work. For instance, I added the auth.tcl script which is supposed to auth me to Q on Quakenet.org and it does auth me properly.

[willyw]

Have you tried running the bot with the -n switch?

" -n Don't background; send all log entries to console. "

Do:
./eggdrop -h
to see a list of the various switches.


This way, perhaps you will be able to see what is happening, when the bot tries and fails to join the channel.

[Sib]

I did try that just now. Nothing particular showed up in my shell console. Nothing more than what I see in partyline when I do a .restart.

Basically, when it doesn't join, it stops at the auth lines.
When it does join (without any scripts), it adds "Botname joined #chan"

[willyw]

[Sib]

Problem solved thanks to Madalin with a simple conf file and a new auth script. Thanks!