Weird Messages That Get Logged Last revised: March 10, 2003

Weird Messages That Get Logged

  Shown below are some messages that Eggdrop might log from time to time
  that may seem a bit strange and have meanings which may not be
  obvious.

  (!) timer drift -- spun N minutes

    This can be caused by one of several reasons.

      -   Your bot could have been swapped out of memory for a while, or
          for some reason the computer could have stopped letting the
          bot run. Once a minute, Eggdrop does a few maintenance things,
          including counting down any active Tcl timers. If for some
          reason, several minutes pass without Eggdrop being able to do
          this, it logs this message to let you know what happened. It's
          generally a bad thing, because it means that the system your
          bot is on is very busy, and the bot can hardly keep track of
          the channel very well when it gets swapped out for minutes at
          a time.
      -   On some systems (at least Linux), if the DNS your bot is using
          to lookup hostnames is broken and very slow in responding
          (this can occur if the DNS server's uplink doesn't exist),
          then you will get 4-5 minute timer drifts continuously. This
          can be fixed by loading the dns module.
      -   The clock on your machine has just been changed. It may have
          been running behind by several minutes and was just corrected.

  (!) killmember(Nickname) -> nonexistent

      We have yet to track this down. It's a mildly bad thing, however.
      It means the bot just got informed by the server that someone left
      the channel -- but the bot has no record of that person ever being
      ON the channel.

      jwilkinson@mail.utexas.edu had some insight into this one:

        This is not an Eggdrop bug, at least not most of the time. This
        is a bug in all but perhaps the very latest ircd systems. It's
        not uncommon during netsplits and other joins for the server to
        lose track of killed or collided join notices. Also, in some
        servers, it is possible to specify non-standard characters, such
        as caret symbols, which get falsely interpreted as capital
        letters.

        When converted to lowercase, these symbols fail to get
        processed, and joins are not reported, although parts are.

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