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$Id: WEIRD-MESSAGES,v 1.3 2004/01/09 05:56:35 wcc Exp $
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Weird Messages That Get Logged
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Last revised: March 10, 2003
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Weird Messages That Get Logged
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Shown below are some messages that Eggdrop might log from time to time
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that may seem a bit strange and have meanings which may not be obvious.
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(!) timer drift -- spun N minutes
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This can be caused by one of several reasons.
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- Your bot could have been swapped out of memory for a while, or for
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some reason the computer could have stopped letting the bot run. Once
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a minute, Eggdrop does a few maintenance things, including counting
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down any active Tcl timers. If for some reason, several minutes pass
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without Eggdrop being able to do this, it logs this message to let
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you know what happened. It's generally a bad thing, because it means
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that the system your bot is on is very busy, and the bot can hardly
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keep track of the channel very well when it gets swapped out for
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- On some systems (at least Linux), if the DNS your bot is using to
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lookup hostnames is broken and *very* slow in responding (this can
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occur if the DNS server's uplink doesn't exist), then you will get
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4-5 minute timer drifts continuously. This can be fixed by loading
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- The clock on your machine has just been changed. It may have been
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running behind by several minutes and was just corrected.
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(!) killmember(Nickname) -> nonexistent
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We have yet to track this down. It's a mildly bad thing, however. It
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means the bot just got informed by the server that someone left the
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channel -- but the bot has no record of that person ever being ON the
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jwilkinson@mail.utexas.edu had some insight into this one:
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This is not an Eggdrop bug, at least not most of the time. This is a
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bug in all but perhaps the very latest ircd systems. It's not uncommon
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during netsplits and other joins for the server to lose track of killed
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or collided join notices. Also, in some servers, it is possible to
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specify non-standard characters, such as caret symbols, which get
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falsely interpreted as capital letters.
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When converted to lowercase, these symbols fail to get processed, and
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joins are not reported, although parts are.
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