+ ZEBOT + ===== Homepages: ========= http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/zebot http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/zebot/ ABOUT ===== This is the 'zebot' distro, on many irc channels better known as the 'toutou' nuisance :D. Read the html docu, or the developer POD docu inbuild in the scripts for more info (perldoc thefile_you_are_interested_in). It is a ircbot (Internet Relay Chat roBot) written in perl, extensible through self-writable perl - modules using OO-techniques. This IRC robot accompanies you on your favorite channels and obeys your commands and reacts to external triggers. Thought more as a toy, even if channel camping facilities and user managment are included, more coming: the thing acts as a dog :D You can teach him additionnal tricks. USAGE ===== First install the package (see INSTALL file) Run the ./zebot.pl script from a shell to start the thing. Once started the bot connects itself to the servers specified in the server.conf file and then joins on each server the channels as configured in the file server.conf. Fire up your own irc-client and connect yourself to the same servers/channels. Depending on the functionalities/modules you installed and activated the bot now reacts to what happens on the channel or on commands send to him directly through private messages. The use should be quite straightforward, and you might want to rely on the online help, sending /msg toutou help [topic] to fetch it. Of course, you can change the botname from toutou to anything else in the zebot.conf file. THANKS ====== J-M Libs for launching the idea and reviewing the README and INSTALL files Rocco Caputo for extensivley helping me to understand POE and debugging this bot