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* /sockopen: 'dbupdate' socket in use (line 8, ircon_al.txt). I am gonna chalk this up to wierdness, because something seems to have gotten thru in the last 24 hours... my forumhome is displaying the topic from last night. I cant update it tho. As another point, I perpetually have a connection to the forums open, it seems. My IP is always at Unknown Location
/forums/irconline.php?eventid=refresh on my forums.

how about a command to tell the update to stop and that the bot is offline

If you get a socket-in-use error when trying to use /ircrefresh or /topicrefresh, which can happen if there is much activity and the socket processes are overlapping, you can manually shut them down using /sockclose.

E.g.

/sockclose dbupdate

Then try proceeding with /topicrefresh

As for your IP pointing to this nonexistent location, irconline.php?event=refresh, not sure what is going on there.

I managed to get the topic to update by shutting down the socket and manually /topicrefresh quickly after, tho it took a few tries before the dbupdate socket reopened. My IRC channel (and forum) dont have very much traffic in fact thus far the activity bar hasn't gone above 'Very Idle'. I'll keep watching this thread to see if any updates happen, or if someone can explain to me why its not workin so well for me.

I am still a bit concerned about the connection to /forums/irconline.php?eventid=refresh which seems to coincide with the settings within the aliases installed by this hack (of which I have 4, begintime, ircrefresh, startcount, and topicrefresh). I'm pretty sure this is whats causing the problems... you dont have this problem on your own forum?

Still, this hack is better than the IRC hack I had installed on VB2. Thanks a lot for the efforts in this, and great hack :) Installed!

Velocd, could I possibly check my irc settings on my board in your channel, that way I can start the elimination process :)

sweet
i will install it when vB3 Gold is out :)

The support link in the install file reflects another thread :) You might want to update that to avoid confusion.

To get more users listed, maybe you could have mirc first list the ops, then the halfops, then the voiced users, and then the rest? This way you can have 4x 254 characters, instead of it all together. At the moment, we don't even list half the users online. Which is a shame. This is partially due to the long length of usernames that is allowed on the channel.

Great hack - it works. Just a shame it doesn't use the config.php prefix_ for tablenames :)

and as a final integration with vb3's new feature(s); phrases!



## Small tweak for users who want to have the irc server listed as a link so it opens in mirc ! (hopefully this still works in mirc6 - haven't tried it out yet though)

# Open the " irc_loggedin " template and find:
$channel[server]

# Replace with:
<a href="irc://$channel[server]/$channel[handle]">$channel[server]</a>

##

Ah, I have tried this, and the result is the same happening! Even if you separate each as its own variable, and then make a new variable that is the concatenated form of those other variables, mIRC will still form them all together and give you a "line-too-long" message.

I think the only way around this is using some filesystem functions, and saving the data into a local file (in your mIRC dir) and then reading it from that file. I'll look into this today.

Yeah, go ahead. ;) I can help you out some in there if I see you.

this would be great as an eggdrop. If anyone needs a server, you can use mine. Its a 1000 user network. irc.asylo.com

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