Reboot "Without Rebooting"?

Rameses · Senior Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 182

Is it possible to reboot without the bot signing off and backon? I know if you use the system function, it reboots quickly, but I'm trying to figure out a way that it could regather all the perl files and use those without logging off..

I'm working on it, I'll tell ya guys if I make any progress, lol.. (I think I may have an idea, lol)

eric256 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:17 am Post subject:

You can reload the commands etc. But you can't reload the perl thats connecting to the MSN server. There might be a way to reload the main file if you can figure out how to pass the $msn object along. I can't see any reason to work so hard at this though, i just don't see the value.

Dazzy · Agent Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 1731

well........i want it to like log off and like boot everything up again...

i did it like you said with system....it sort of worked.....but it didnt reset everything adn when you reboot it you had to closse the window and start it up again to use the commands..........it sorta locked up
it would go offline for a flash.....it wouldnt even leave the convo it was so fast!

but didnt work like it wanted it to....it wouldnt reset the msn.pm i changed the color and them rebooted and it didnt change so......... Sad

if you get it to work id like to take a look Very Happy

really i want it to reload msn.pm ,,,,i dont mind if it goes offline for a bit(2 secs)

eric256 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:29 pm Post subject:

You can't reload MSN.pm and stay online, i thought i'd mentioned that. That is the part handling the sockets that are talking to MSN. Why you would be changing colors in MSN.pm I don't understand at all.

Dazzy · Agent Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 1731

sorry!!
MY MISTAKE

bot.pm

Atomix · Young One Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 67

*Cough*Eric, You can reboot without the main bot.pl file without logging off...
all you have to do is this:

system "botsname.pl";

*cough*

eric256 · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject:

*cough* thats a bad idea, and it still is going to log the bot off,if it doesn't, i would expect to experience major problems communicating with MSS. If you do that then every time you "reboot" your bot gets run agian, inside your old bot,so 5 reboots = 5 * the memory.

Atomix · Young One Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 67

Still, Its the only thing I can think off Razz

And it doesnt log the bot off :^)

Sypher · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject:

Shut down the bot, let the bot run a batch file where you set-up the "perl bot.pl" ... Maybe that's usefull

Cer · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject:

One thing I've noticed when using a file reloading command is that it reloads all command files and misc subroutines, but won't reload the handlers.

So maybe if you have the handler call another file/sub immediately, then you can have the bot reload the "misc sub" and reload how handlers are handled without rebooting.

eric256 · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:22 pm Post subject:

I don't beleive that your bot is actualy reloading adn still keeping sockets connected to MSN open, perhaps you think its not getting offlien cause it does it in a hurry or something. system runs another program, running your bot a second time will still call all the connect info, which would force your bot to get on a second time. Maybe its like when you login at a new location and are already logged in somewhere esle, the transition could be fast enough to make it appear to stay online. I don't think appearing to never go offline is more important than the giant memory leak you are introducing though.

UnShavenGod · Young One Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 99

I've done something like this .... MIght not be exactly what you're looking for, but the results are the same?

I have a user command that "reloads" the vocab files into a global hash... Since subroutines are stored according to their memory addresses (just as hashes are), perhaps you could achieve what you want with the "do" command.

In my bot.pl, I use a "do" command which loads files like "chat_functions.pl" ....

I could have the reload "command" reload the subroutines without "rebooting" the bot. (By doing another "do"). I am not sure if you would need to reassign the handlers to a new memory reference --- BUT even so, you should be able to address that issue in the "reload without reboot" command.

... I haven't tried this... but i think it should work.

paulwinter40 · Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 28

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