At the moment for this installation, the bot is on a different server. Hence the need for http or in the case of the other hack ftp access. So at least for the moment direct DB access is out.
The reason for the x second timer to write the file is the bot doesn't accuretly dump the online list after a part (it keeps the data so you can check to see for wallops etc).
But I will look into direct db access for a later revision of the hack for on server bots.
Thanks for the feedback
Dan
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