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draget
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
sometimes my bot crashes, this i think is due to $self->sendleave(); being used, I have spoken to other bot makers who have disabled it for the same reason. I do not wish to disabled it however.

What I think would be good is a watchdog app that ensures the bot is running at all times, restarting it if it crashes, maybe it could run in the system tray or something.

opinions/ideas?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
QUOTE(draget @ Feb 4 2005, 08:21 AM)
sometimes my bot crashes, this i think is due to $self->sendleave(); being used, I have spoken to other bot makers who have disabled it for the same reason. I do not wish to disabled it however.

What I think would be good is a watchdog app that ensures the bot is running at all times, restarting it if it crashes, maybe it could run in the system tray or something.

opinions/ideas?

What I do with leaving convo's is eval it.

Code:
eval ("\$self->sendleave;");


Because the bot will leave the convo no matter what you do, just for some reason the MSN module will give a fatal error after the fact. But eval doesn't allow fatal errors to kill the entire bot.

That's a lot easier to do than to program another bot to watch your bot.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interesting, thanks cer!
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Me or Mojave will have a look at fixing this in the next version
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You could also run the bot in a batch file and have it just restart if it crashes.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
QUOTE(alienz @ Feb 4 2005, 02:27 PM)
You could also run the bot in a batch file and have it just restart if it crashes.

That's the other thing I was going to suggest (but didn't have time to).

Make the source of the batch file be this:

Quote:
@echo off
:Loop
perl bot.pl
goto Loop


Change bot.pl to the name of the bot's file.

So then you run the bot with the batch file, and if the bot ever crashes due to a fatal error, it will restart itself (eliminating any need for a watch bot for any purposes).
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The batch loopy bit was kind of what i meant as watch dog, thanks guys!
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