Eggdrop

• Eggdrop is the world's most popular open source irc bot.

Eggdrop 1.6.16 Release Candidate 1 Released! ftp://ftp.eggheads.org/pub/eggdrop/source/1.6/RC/'

"..designed for flexibility and ease of use, and is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Eggdrop was originally developed by Robey Pointer; however, he no longer works on Eggdrop so please do not contact him for help solving a problem or bug.

Some features of Eggdrop:

- Designed to run on Linux, *BSD, SunOs, Windows, MacOS X, etc ...

- Extendable with tcl scripts and/or C modules

- Support for the big five irc networks (UnderNet, DalNet, EfNet, IrcNet, and QuakeNet)

- The ability to form botnets and share [[PartyLine|partyline]s and userfiles between bots

Some benefits of Eggdrop:

- The oldest IRC bot still in active development (Eggdrop was created in 1993)

- Established IRC help channels and [web sites] dedicated to Eggdrop

- Thousands of premade tcl scripts and C modules

- Best of all ... It's FREE!

• http://www.eggheads.org/

• http://www.egghelp.org/

• ftp://ftp.eggheads.org/pub/eggdrop/

• [#IrcChannels]To get support via IRC: join #bots , #egghelp , #eggtcl on EfNet

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How to install an Eggdrop

The Short Short & Updated Version

• ssh to the shell.

• wget or ftp the source from [eggdrop1.6.16rc1]

• UnPack it ( tar zxvf eggdrop1.6.16rc1.tar.gz )

• Switch to the directory ( cd eggdrop1.6.16rc1 )

• Start the config script ( ./configure )

• Compile the modules ,either all ( make config ) or select some of them ( make iconfig ).

• Compile the bot ( make )

• Install it to a directory of your choice ( make install DEST=/home/name/botdir ).

• Switch to the botdir and edit the sample config file eggdrop.conf, then rename it to something appropriate (e.g. botnick.conf).

• Start the bot up in user-creation mode (only the first time) ( ./eggdrop -m <config file> ).

• [TelNet Telnet] to the port you chose in the config file and type "NEW" as user. Setup your real user name and password.

• Now you are owner of the bot , and from now on you start it without the -m option , just (./eggdrop <config file>).

• If you dont see it appearing on IRC right away, TelNet to the PartyLine and try .jump irc.someserver.com

• You should have setup your channels in the config, but if you activated dynamic channels you can now use .+chan #channel on the partyline to make your bot join additional channels.

• Now learn the [PartylineCommands partyline commands] to setup users and give them the flags you want. (.+user , .adduser , .chattr) and generally .help . All [PartylineCommands partyline commands] beging with a "." Enjoy.

Note: Eggdrop requires [Tcl] to compile. If the server does not have [Tcl] installed, you will need to download and [install] it.

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Eggdrops can be heavily extended using TCLScripts tcl scripts

• [Eggdrop Tricks]

Need to know how to make your eggdrop auth to Q on QuakeNet ? Check EggDrops/QuakeAuth

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• http://www.egghelp.org/files.htm

• http://www.baschny.de/eggdrop/faq/faq-b.html