Eggdrop

An eggdrop, is a bot that will sit in chatrooms monitoring them all the time. This is how to set one up.

Connect to your shell, and type in your username and password.

Here are the basics for compiling a 1.3.x bot. For this example, my account is "blah", and my home dir is /usr/home/blah
1) Get the eggdrop source:
cd
ftp ftp.tclslave.net
anonymous
[email protected]
cd pub/eggdrop/GNU/
get eggdrop1.3.24i.tar.gz
quit
2) Unpack the source.
tar -xzf eggdrop1.3.24i.tar.gz
3) Configure the source
cd eggdrop1.3.24i
./configure
4) Make the bot
make
5) Install the bot
make install DEST=/eggdrop
cp eggdrop.conf.dist ~/eggdrop/
6) Clean up the compile dir
cd
rm -r eggdrop1.3.24i
7) Edit the bot.conf
cd eggdrop
cp eggdrop.conf.dist mybot.conf
pico mybot.conf
8) Run the bot for the first time
./eggdrop -m mybot.conf
9) Introduce yourself to your bot Depending on your config options, you will be prompted to telnet to the bot or msg the bot "hello". Once you do this, you are set as the bot's owner.
10) Enjoy. You can now add scripts, add users, add channels, etc, etc, etc. You can also add the bot to your crontab so it will restart automatically if it dies. Read the scripts/botchk file for details. Enjoy your bot.

NPN

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