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Eggdrop

Eggdrop is the oldest Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot still in active development.

Install tcllib and tls and pycryptodome

emerge -av dev-tcltk/tcllib dev-tcltk/tls dev-python/pycryptodome

Compile eggdrop from source

git clone https://github.com/eggheads/eggdrop
cd eggdrop
./configure
make config
make $(nproc)
make install DEST=/mnt/usb/eggdrop

Start eggdrop

./eggdrop -m yourbot.conf

Send hello to your bot

/msg <yourbot> hello
pass <yourpass> (when replied)

Send dcc commands

/dcc chat <yourbot> .help

Setup your eggdrop

.+chan #<channel>
.chanset #channel chanmode +k <password>
.chanset #channel +autoop
.save

Set blowkey

/joín #channel
/blowkey set s8#G%pn#%iam*l#w$VZLGki5#e0AWalU

Scripts

Rehash script

bind pub - "!rehash" rehash_cmd
bind msg - "!rehash" rehash_cmd_pm

# Channel command
proc rehash_cmd {nick uhost hand chan text} {
    putserv "PRIVMSG $chan :Rehashing..."
    rehash
}

# PM command
proc rehash_cmd_pm {nick uhost hand text} {
    putserv "PRIVMSG $nick :Rehashing..."
    rehash
}

Show network bandwidth from proc

bind pub - "!bww" bandwidth_check

proc bandwidth_check {nick host handle chan text} {
    set iface "eno1"
    set data1 [exec awk -v iface=$iface {$1 ~ iface {gsub(/:/,"",$1); print $2, $10}} /proc/net/dev]
    foreach {rx1 tx1} $data1 {}

    after 1000

    set data2 [exec awk -v iface=$iface {$1 ~ iface {gsub(/:/,"",$1); print $2, $10}} /proc/net/dev]
    foreach {rx2 tx2} $data2 {}

    set rxkbs [expr {($rx2 - $rx1) / 1024}]
    set txkbs [expr {($tx2 - $tx1) / 1024}]
    puthelp "PRIVMSG $chan :Bandwidth on $iface → Download: ${rxkbs} KB/s | Upload: ${txkbs} KB/s"
}

Allow a specifik user to be invited only

bind msg - "!invite" invite_cmd

proc invite_cmd {nick uhost handle text} {
    set allowed_user "wuseman"
    set target_channel "#-GreyZone-"
    if { [string tolower $nick] != [string tolower $allowed_user] } {
        return
    }
    # Check if the command is sent via private message, not in a channel
    if {![string match "#*" $text]} {
        putserv "INVITE $nick $target_channel"
        putserv "PRIVMSG $nick :You have been invited to $target_channel."
    }
}

Automatically start eggdrop at boot

Editera /etc/init.d/eggdrop

vim /etc/init.d/eggdrop

Add the following to /etc/init.d/eggdrop

#!/sbin/openrc-run

description="Eggdrop IRC bot"

command="/mnt/usb/eggdrop/eggdrop"
command_args="/mnt/usb/eggdrop/eggdrop.conf"
command_background="yes"
pidfile="/run/eggdrop.pid"
directory="/mnt/usb/eggdrop"

depend() {
    need net
}

Make script executable

chmod +x /etc/init.d/eggdrop

Add eggdrop to default runlevel

rc-update add eggdrop default

Test setup directly

rc-service eggdrop start

Resource(s)