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Weird Messages That Get Logged
Last revised: March 10, 2003
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Weird Messages That Get Logged
Shown below are some messages that Eggdrop might log from time to time
that may seem a bit strange and have meanings which may not be obvious.
(!) timer drift -- spun N minutes
This can be caused by one of several reasons.
- Your bot could have been swapped out of memory for a while, or for
some reason the computer could have stopped letting the bot run. Once
a minute, Eggdrop does a few maintenance things, including counting
down any active Tcl timers. If for some reason, several minutes pass
without Eggdrop being able to do this, it logs this message to let
you know what happened. It's generally a bad thing, because it means
that the system your bot is on is very busy, and the bot can hardly
keep track of the channel very well when it gets swapped out for
minutes at a time.
- On some systems (at least Linux), if the DNS your bot is using to
lookup hostnames is broken and *very* slow in responding (this can
occur if the DNS server's uplink doesn't exist), then you will get
4-5 minute timer drifts continuously. This can be fixed by loading
the dns module.
- The clock on your machine has just been changed. It may have been
running behind by several minutes and was just corrected.
(!) killmember(Nickname) -> nonexistent
We have yet to track this down. It's a mildly bad thing, however. It
means the bot just got informed by the server that someone left the
channel -- but the bot has no record of that person ever being ON the
channel.
jwilkinson@mail.utexas.edu had some insight into this one:
This is not an Eggdrop bug, at least not most of the time. This is a
bug in all but perhaps the very latest ircd systems. It's not uncommon
during netsplits and other joins for the server to lose track of killed
or collided join notices. Also, in some servers, it is possible to
specify non-standard characters, such as caret symbols, which get
falsely interpreted as capital letters.
When converted to lowercase, these symbols fail to get processed, and
joins are not reported, although parts are.
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