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email it to: develop@darkbot.info
Support (only): http://forum.darkbot.info
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Darkbot 7.0-RC7: Feb 21st, 2003
- New command line option.
Darkbot -I /path/to/info2.db can be used to specify
an info2.db file that is not in the default location.
- Multiple command line arguements are now supported.
I have no clue why this wasn't done before.
- The .debug and .debug2 scripts were missing from the
distribution. They're back now.
- Found another place where the bot wasn't deleting old
userlist entries. This has been fixed.
- Added the CHANUSERS command. All this does is return
a list of users on either the specified channel, or
the current channel, if none is specified. I may
remove this eventually, as i'm just using it for
debugging purposes right now.
- CHANINFO command will output to whatever channel it
received the command from now, instead of the channel
it's showing data about.
- The CHANINFO command now supports a channel name
parameter. Dunno why it didn't have that before...
- Darkbot is on CVS now at SourceForge!
- Soapta revamped the google module.
- The MEM command now displays the correct process. I removed
the -x flag from the ps command it was issuing, and it fixed
it. If anyone sees any reason the -x flag should be used,
let me know and i'll recode the whole thing.
- Added SETHOST alias for the VHOST command.
- Updates to the Ebonic and French languages which define
Lbadtopic and Lbadtopic2 now. Other languages still need
this added.
- The RDB command, which gives information about the number
of RDB files, can now be used with an arguement, to tell
how many lines are in a specific RDB file. It was supposed
to do this before, but it didn't work properly. This
command is still unavailable in Windows.
- Removed a warning concerning do_randq that happened if you
compiled with RANDOM_STUFF undefined.
- Fixed another bug that was causing the bot to never remove
old entries from it's internal user list. This time it wasn't
parsing the channel name for PARTs correctly. I also removed
some parsing being done on an unused variable whenever
someone parted a channel.
- Fix for RDB command... i forgot to change this when I moved
all of the RDB files to their own directory. OOPS! :)
Darkbot 7.0-RC6: Oct 30th, 2002
- Added Arabic language.
- You can now toggle the use of encrypted userlist.db passwords.
Check defines.h for this.
- Fix for the bot not executing performs when it connects to
a server which does not have an MOTD. Also cleaned up a small
amount of redundant code dealing with performs.
- The bot will no longer crash if it encounters blank lines in
the info2.db during data searches (DSEARCH and SEARCH commands).
Darkbot 7.0-RC5: Sep 24th, 2002
- Fixed do_randomtopic(), so it's now possible to output the first
quote. it never did this before (oops).
- Fixed the socket connection routines for windows.
- Fixed a rather large bug that caused the bot to never actually delete
users from the internal user list when necessary.
This also fixes another problem where the bot would put return a
nickname from R~ that is not actually on the channel.
- RDB topics now support the use of tokenized responses. This includes
the use of tokenized responses in the WHUT and DUNNO replies.
- Added timers directory to the distribution, it was missing.
- Got rid of the do_randomtopic2() function for the random dunno, and
random whut replies. do_randomtopic() now handles everything. This
cut down the size of the code a bit, and should have been how it was
done originally, anyway. This also means variables and also raw
commands can now be used in the replies for whut, and dunno, also.
- Added a level 3 helper command, "PERFORMS", which just executes all
all commands that are in the bot's performs.ini file, at any time.
- Fixed minor oversight that I created when adding a check for illegal
characters in !nick, it now lets you use all legal characters.
- RDB topic responses can now contain raw commands.
- RDB files are now stored in their own directory. By default, this is
dat/rdb.
- Changed get_word() function to make it a little more useful.
- Changed some error replies in the RANDQ function, and added a response
for the condition of randomstuff.ini being empty.
- Cleaned up the prototypes.h file, it looked really ugly. :)
This also reduced the total amount of code by a bit, but i'm not going
to bother checking just how much. :P
- Fixed an issue in seen, that might cause the bot to improperly count
the number of seens in the database.
- Fixed minor bug in add_randstuff() that caused the bot to say there was
one more randomstuff in the file it's adding to than there actually was.
- Fixed a bug in do_random_stuff() that prevented the bot from outputting
randomstuffs, in very rare instances. This suspectedly was causing some
strangeness noted in Debian, and some other OSs.
- Added a new alias for randomstuff, RS.
- Fixed a bug in !USERLIST, that caused the bot to flood itself, and not
show of all of the users it was supposed to show.
!USERLIST now works correctly, and hopefully on ALL OS.
- Fixed a bug in !BANLIST that caused it to not output correctly on some
OS.
- Due to abuse and channel cluttering, the !VARIABLES command now messages
the user with the output, instead of sending it to the current channel.
- Fixed a compilation error concerning BITCH_DEOP_REASON being undeclared.
What i did is remove this, and now if BITCH_ABOUT_DEOP is turned on, it
just runs the list of commands in deop.ini. If BITCH_ABOUT_DEOP is turned
off, it does nothing when the bot is deoped. Apparently, before this
version, it ALWAYS ran deop.ini, and the BITCH_ABOUT_DEOP just toggled the
bot saying whatever line was defined in BITCH_DEOP_REASON. That seemed kind
of pointless, to me, but i never noticed it before now.
Darkbot 7.0-RC4: Jun 24th, 2002
Again, Ron did a couple necessary and urgent changes and fixes:
- Finally, the bug in windows concerning DEL and REPLACE has
been corrected. A function which checks readability and
writeability was leaving the info2.db file open at startup,
and causing all sorts of problems, since the new code structure
was implemented.
- NO NEED FOR TOP LINE WITH NUMBER ANYMORE on random phrase files.
... After yet even more problems with randomstuffs being counted
improperly, I've recoded the entire randomstuff routine.
They no longer rely on any number at the top of the file, which
means you can remove that number from your randomstuff.ini.
Optimizations made to make randomstuff more random, also.
- Fixed a bug where Darkbot would crash when you use !nick
with illegal characters.
- Patched a socket issue in create_connection() that appeared
only in windows.
- Eliminated a warning dealing with the redefinition of size_t
when compiling the bot in windows.
- Eliminated all of the casting done on malloc in the program.
Casting malloc is totally unnecessary, and can mask other
errors.
- Improved the fix for topics that consist entirely of "*"
characters. It now checks for "?" also. This prevents
segmentation faults, and topics which are entirely wild-
cards are seriously annoying anyway. Sorry if it's in any
inconvenience to anyone.
- Minor cosmetic fix to the output of DBSIZE, it'll now say
that the database is "1 byte in size", instead of "1 bytes
in size", if it's only 1 byte. This should never happen,
but if it does, it'll look nice. :)
- Added #define MSG_RESPONSES to defines.h to have Darkbot
answering or not to private queries. Check next 2 defines.
(default is OFF)
- Added #define ALLOW_ADD_IN_MSG to turn ON or OFF the
possibility of ADDing database entries to Darkbot in
private message. (default = OFF)
- Added #define ALLOW_DEL_IN_MSG to turn ON or OFF the
possibility of DELeting database entries from Darkbot in
private message. (default = OFF)
- Added RANDQ function and alias RANDQUOTE, to output a random
line from your randomstuff.ini that contains a specified search
string.
RANDQ output returns a (11/23) type thing at the beginning of
the line, which tells which quote it's showing, out of how many
were matched in your search.
RANDQ can be used from any channel, and in MSG. It wont output
An obvious side effect to this, is that the ~ variable in
randomstuffs will evaluate to a nickname, if it's used in private
message (The nickname of whoever invoked it).
To make the function toggleable a directive with the same name
was made on defines.h (default = ON)
Try it out, !RANDQ <stuff>
- Added RANDQ2 command, which is the same as RANDQ, only it
matches case sensitively.
- Added BACKUP_RANDOMSTUFF define to backup randomstuff.ini
file every time a random phrase is added. This was done due
to missing contents when adding an entry on a file with a high
ammount of phrases. Latest fixes resolves the problem but this
define will stay to play on the safe side and/or if user likes
to backup changed files.
- Added hostmask code, where the bot converts hostmasks to
*jason@*.superlink.net, or *jason@203.203.203.*.
- After lots of complaints, the second line in the info reply
only shows up with the stats command now.
Shell utilities
- Adjusted check-integrity to the non necessity anymore of top
line with number of random entries on random phrases files.
- configure script now forces entering at least one server
and at least one user level 3, on servers.ini and userlist.db
files respectively, in case those files are empty.
(working on checking errors on user input).
- added an option on 'configure' to import servers.ini and
userlist.db from another location.
- Added BSDs compatibility to all shell scripts.
- Added Cygwin compatibility to AddServer, AddUser,
check-integrity and download-databases scripts (live-update
and dbcron not fully tested yet).
Darkbot 7.0-RC3: May 22nd, 2002
Ron @ darkbot.info has worked on the following 4 issues:
- Fixed a bug that caused crashes if the bot responds to a
topic containing R~ in private message.
- Fixed a bug that caused excess floods if the bot were to
send private messages to itself.
- Fixed a bug concerning topics that consists entirely of the
'*' character, which caused segmentation faults. Darkbot
will not allow you to add a topic like this now.
- Fixed the Makefile, on my computer it kept compiling all
of the source files seperately and then compiling them all
together instead of linking the .o files it made.
- Added directory logs lost in action. It is now within dat directory
- Fixed .Stripdb and .Stripdb2 - so now points to the correct bin path
Shell utilities: (all changed/improved - read docs/README_UTILS)
- Added README_UTILS to docs directory with information about shell utils
- Added compatibility to wget (besides lynx) on scripts that needs to
connect to internet
- All utility scripts now share working directory .scriptutils instead of
having dynamic files all over scripts directory
- download-databases now integrated on live-update (besides standalone)
(if updated on RC3 the change will take effect next time live-update
is executed)
- Added a couple more features and improved others for more accuracy on
check-integrity engine. USE IT before asking for help or going into
paranoia if you suspect you have data errors or even if you are not
sure eventual errors became from bad entries on data files.
- Added a few features to AddUser utility
- configure script now bypasses previously configured items. Just hit
ENTER key to go to the next setup. Also it gets already configured
parameters and use it as session defaults instead of the usual Darkbot
defaults. The script is now linked to AddUser and AddServer with all
features those utilities now have.
Darkbot 7.0-RC2: Apr 13th, 2002
- Windows port. Not much to do at this time. Last changes
on the core code made some commands not working properly.
Any interested coder... the affected commands
are DELETE, which do not delete, and REPLACE, which leaves
in info2.db 2 entries with the same topic. I should remind
all coders that the source must be sent together with it's
executable/bin files. Any coder willing to participate use
the email on top of this info or directly to me
at LuizCB@darkbot.info . (only development matters please)
- The following are a couple Unix scripts to help on Darkbot
management. Most are complete, some needs small adjustments
or more features. I've used basic sh technics on it's making,
I should say, while learning the language on the fly.
Please test them and send any modiffs in case you are able
to. The idea of these shell scripts is mainly to open a door
to C coders to implement them so it will be possible to port
it to other platforms.
- A more featured AddServer. Downloads and installs servers
of the network you choose. Thanks to the folks at the
International Federation of IRC - http://ifirc.com
for a job well done on your site! The merit of that will
go to our web page on the credits area as soon as stable
version 7 is released.
- New crontab setup utility. Run dbcron on scripts dir and
if crontab is active on your shell the script will do
everything for you (10 mins interval cron job).
- Implemented a new update utility. On scripts
directory type ./live-update -h for help on it's
usage. At this stage the update engine will not
transfer your previous directives on defines.h
or darkbot.c to the new file, so you'll have to
edit defines.h manually and compile Darkbot.
The script is compatible with all Darkbot releases
and can be launched standalone providing it's in
scripts directory. To install it ( in case you don't have
it with your Darkbot) type
lynx -source http://live-update.darkbot.info > live-update
then chmod +x live-update
(get-latest will no longer be available)
- New download-databases utility. ( it will be integrated soon on
live-update engine but can also work standalone).
- New file-integrity utility ( still needs some ajustments and
more features but you can use it already - works with
download-databases utility or by itself). Type
./check-integrity to check info2.db. Due to unpredictable
user entries on info2.db this utility could behave
abnormally on some special characters. Please send me all
info2.db file in case anything like that happens so I can
make exclusions on the code.
Changes applied by reet:
- Fixed major bug when adding users - the password wasn't
encrypted, thus user could never login.
- Added new commands IGNORE & UNIGNORE syntax is:
<bot> ignore <nick>
<bot> unignore <nick>
The ignore list is only stored in RAM, changing
nicks will get around this ignore. This is useful
to ignore people who query the bot too much.
- Applied code optimization patches on info and check_permban,
submited by Neil Darlow
- Preview for next full release: adjustments on shell utilities
and a full featured menu GUI might be finished. Minor
changes in meanwhile can be updated using live-update
engine.
Darkbot 7.0-RC1: Mar 2nd, 2002
- Fixed get-latest script; besides checking for code updates
also looks for latest news. Database files updates
will be also done/actualized soon. It's not linked
anywhere by now so if you want to use it type it's
name.
- Organized file structure; all scripts are now on scripts
directory, documents on docs except README which is
now on Darkbot's root dir. A new contributors file
was created with the list of colaborators.
- defines.h is now organized in different way and prepared
to a "shell GUI" to be released soon.
- Organized 'configure' in a different way. Now it starts
with defines.h editing and then it goes to data files.
- scripts/dbcron - a new script to execute crontab. There is
plenty of help how to use in it. Read it. Soon the
reconnection process will me automated.
- Updated makefile to reflect the new directory tree.
- Code contributors please use this release as the base of
your changes.
- The next changes are code modifications also in preparation
for release 7, mostly adapted, updated or implemented
by reet, paul @ darkbot.info
- Added GOOGLE feature. Simply type:
<bot> google <search string>
The bot will then return the first URL google
returns.
#define GOOGLE ON to use this feature.
- ********** IMPORTANT **********************************
- userlist.db passwords are now *ENCRYPTED*
If you are using an older version userlist.db
you MUST set all the passwords to 0 *** OR ***
Cygwin/Windows users run convert.exe
UNIX users run ./convert
and your userlist.db will be converted
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- #define PERFORM_TIMER ON if you want darkbot to send its
PERFORM.INI to the IRC server every 60 seconds, useful
if your bot is banned from a channel, or couldn't
log in to channel services due to a net split etc.
It's in defines.h
Darkbot 7 (alpha 2.1): Dec 23rd, 2001
- Fixed 'INFO2.DB must have at least one topic' problem. Bot
should work normally, even if INFO2.DB is empty.
- Added 'stats' support to darkbot, <botnick> stats will return
total number of questions asked since it started
recording. You can also do <botnick> stats <nickname>
to get indivdual stats from a user. dat/stats.db holds
the data.
- Added 'quiz' support to darkbot, <botnick> quiz to execute
the quiz, it will pick a random question/answer from
dat/quiz.db. The format of the question answer in the
file should be <question>@<answer>
e.g. What is 1+1?@The answer is 2!
quiz is still in experimental stages, check defines.h
to enable/set it up.
Darkbot 7 (alpha 2): Dec 17th, 2001
- New define - #define VOICE_USERS_ON_JOIN [on/off]
- New commands: /msg bot infosize or /msg bot dbsize
or in channel: bot infosize or bot dbsize
returns the file size of INFO2.DB
- New command: bot whisper <nick> about <topic>
darkbot will NOTICE the user, instead of PRIVMSG
- Moved source code and Makefile to source directory -
this keeps the root tree of darkbot clean, nothing
changes for the user, they still type make in the
darkbot root, and the binary will be copied there.
- Repaired get_rand_nick() problem - bot was still returning
it's own nick - *should* be ok now.
- Added Ron's random whut, and dunno function.
Darkbot 7 (alpha 2): Dec 16th, 2001
- Removed #ifdef WIN32 references for sprintf/snprintf,
have included the function snprintf() in general.c,
for older compilers - #define SNPRINTF_SUPPORT should
be switched OFF if your compiler supports snprintf()
this is quite a change.
- Due to lots of people not reading #defines.h and complaining
about make error (clock_t), the configure script
will display an alert about this just before defines.h
is about to be edited.
- New defines - #define CONNECT_WAIT_TIMEOUT [seconds]
#define OP_USERS_ON_LOGIN [on/off]
- New PRIVMSG commands - OP, DEOP, VOICE/V, DEVOICE/DEV/DV/,
DVOICE, KICK/WACK/K, DELETE/REMOVE/
FORGET/DEL, TELL, ADD/REMEMBER/SAVE,
WHERE/WHO, ADDUSER, DIE
Some of them aren't new, but didn't work, and are now fixed.
Just /msg bot tell nick about topic, these commands
usually NOTICE the user, rather than PRIVMSG.
- The connection routine to the server should be better -
instead of quitting after failing to connect, it
will constantly cycle all the servers.
- I've added CYGWIN support in the Makefile - just to hide
those size_t warnings if you get them. If you use
CYGWIN, just use make cygwin
- Permban bug fixed.
- Info/Info2 bug fixed.
- NICK bug fixed - bot will keep the new nick until it quits.
- There is a bug/feature where if a nick has a pipe (|) and
requests a topic that has raw - commands, it ignores
them - looking in to this.

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