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https://github.com/mtl1979/motdbot

Bot showing message-of-the-day to new users on BeShare server
https://github.com/mtl1979/motdbot

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Bot showing message-of-the-day to new users on BeShare server

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This is a little MUSCLE bot that can be used to add a Message of the Day
to your MUSCLE server that BeShare clients will see.

To compile:
1. Download the MUSCLE archive from BeBits (v2.30 or higher), and make
sure the muscle folder appears in the same folder that the motdbot
folder is.

2. cd into this folder and type make

To run:
1. Make sure muscled is running on your machine.

2. cd into this folder and type ./motdbot

To change the text file:

edit motd.txt with any text editor

To report problems:

email me (Jeremy Friesner) at [email protected]

History
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v1.06 6/9/03
* Update the Makefile to link correctly with
MUSCLE v2.40

v1.05 3/03/03
- motdbot now tries to auto-reconnect when
it loses its connection to the muscle server.
* Updated the code to compile against MUSCLE v2.30

v1.04 12/15/02
* Updated the code to compile against MUSCLE v2.00

v1.03 12/15/01
* Updated the code to compile against MUSCLE v1.93

v1.02 9/07/01
* Fixed the Makefile to reflect updated MUSCLE directory structure
* Fixed an infinite loop bug that would occur when the connection broke
* Updated the docs

v1.01 2/17/01
* Fixed a file descriptor leak (motdbot wasn't calling fclose())

v1.00 Initial Release