Nanobot manual

Environment

All you need for this bot to run is a Perl environment.

You you don't already have Perl installed, please do that first.

If you have modules you want to load, make a directory named "modules" in the same folder where your nanobot.pl resides, and place your module files in there.

Configuration

To configure your bots settings like the server and nickname, open nanobot.pl in a text editor.

Just a few lines into the file, you will find this block of text:

$version = "Nanobot 3.0";
$server = 'irc.insomnia247.nl';
$port = 6667;
$sslport = 6669;
$botnick = 'nanobot';
$botuser = 'nanobot';
$nsp = '';
@channels = ("#bots", "#yourchannel");
@opers = ("insomnia247.nl", "rootedker.nl", "fbi.gov", "eye.spy");
$modchan = '#yourchannel';
$datadir = 'botdata';
$moddir = 'modules';
@autoload = ();
$wisecrack_seen_botnick = "I'm right here. I mean ... really, how did you miss that one?";
$wisecrack_seen_self = "I can see you! You're right there! That's right, I can see.";
$wait_for_ping = 0;
$connect_timeout = 120;
$ping_timeout = 300;

We will now go over each of these values and what they do

version: This is the version number of the bot, normally you will not have to change this.

server: This holds the value of the server you want your bot to connect to, enclosed in single quotes ( ' ).

This can be either a hostname (irc.myircserver.com), an IPv4 address (127.0.0.1) or an IPv6 address (::1).

port: The port number of the IRC server you want to connect to. (Usually 6667.)

sslport: The port number the IRC server uses for SSL connections. (Can be ignored if you don't use SSL.)

botnick: The bots nickname. This is how the bot will show up in channels etc.

botuser: Username for the bot. In IRC terms, it is "nickname!username@hostname".

nsp: NickServ password for your bot's nickname. Can be left blank if the bot's nick is not registered, or if you do not want it to identify with NickServ.

channels: List of channels the bot will join when it connects to the server. @channels = ("#frist", "#second", "#third");

opers: Hostnames or hostmasks for bot admins. Note that they must appear as the bot sees them. @opers = ("my.ip.here", "and.some.vhost.com");

Only the hostname should be added. (So if you are someguy!bob@SOMEHASH-my.isp.com you should add "SOMEHASH-my.isp.com".)

modchan: This is the bots main channel, auto voice, auto oper and auto kick will be preformed here.

datadir: Directory where the bot stores data for it's modchan. (Will be created if it doesn't exist.)

moddir: Directory where the bot will look for modules. (Will be created if it doesn't exist.)

autoload: List of modules that should be loaded automatically when the bot starts up. (Module name only.) @autoload = ("mymodule", "kickban", "anothermodule");

wisecrack_seen_botnick: Line the bot will say when the !seen command is given for the bots own nickname.

wisecrack_seen_self: Line the bot will say when the !seen command is given for the users own nickname.

wait_for_ping: Used to tell the bot if it needs to wait for a PING request before joining channels. (0 = No, 1 = Yes)

If your bot seems to connect, but isn't joining channels, this might well be your problem.

connect_timeout: Time in seconds before giving up trying to connect to the IRC server.

ping_timeout: Time in seconds the bot will wait before assuming a network timeout and tries to reconnect.

Starting command

To start the bot, simply go into the directory where the nanobot.pl file is located and type:

 perl nanobot.pl

Commandline options

The following options may be appended:

-s or --ssl: Tell the bot to use Secure Socket Layers for it's connection.

-h or --help: Print a short help on which functions are available.

-v or --version: Print the version number and exit.

-q or --quiet: Don't generate any output.

-d or --debug: Print debugging lines. May be used twice to see all incomming and outgoing traffic.

Short and long options may be interchanged.

Example:

 perl nanobot.pl --ssl -d --debug

This would start the bot with Secure Socket Layers, and it's most verbose level of debugging information.