#1 Can't get TrollBot to talk/answer in IRC

[Ant]

Hello.

My online friend and I cannot get TrollBot to talk/answer in IRC. I had no problems with Markovsky v0.53 and v0.54. What's wrong? I see lines.txt updated too.

Thank you in advance. :)

[Mego]

What exactly is the issue? Are any error messages being printed to the console from which TrollBot is running?

[grifter]

I'm working with Ant on this issue.
I'm having the same issue in a different install.
I compiled the source code, no errors.
I configured the cfg file.
I start the bot and I get no errors on the console.
All I see is the chat log.
The bot does not respond, I set responces to 100% in the config file.
Here is the program starting for me.
+------------------------------------+
./markovsky-irc
Markovsky v0.53
Uses Botnet version 1.6.3 (c) Christophe CALMEJANE (Ze KiLleR / SkyTech) 1999'01
Loading dictionary...
Parsed 4 lines.
I know 17 words (19 contexts, 1.12 per word), 4 lines.
Connected to irc.server.com...
Registered...
Joining #linux...
+------------------------------------+
Then the chat log, no errors.

Thank you for your responce.

[Ant]

Thanks Grifter. Here's mine in Debian oldstable/Jessie:

$ ./markovsky-irc
Markovsky v0.53
Uses Botnet version 1.6.3 (c) Christophe CALMEJANE (Ze KiLleR / SkyTech) 1999'01
Loading dictionary...
Parsed 2 lines.
I know 8 words (9 contexts, 1.12 per word), 2 lines.
Connected to irc.[deleted server name].com...
Registered...
Joining #bots...
Joining #linux...
(#linux) * LocalAnt tests in #bots.
(#bots) <LocalAnt> hi TrollBot
(#bots) <LocalAnt> TrollBot hi

[Mego]

I'm able to reproduce this error. I'll try to figure out what changed between 6 years ago and now.

[Ant]

Wow, thanks. :)

[grifter]

Much thanks!

[Mego]

Ok so this is the weirdest problem, and I don't know why I wrote the code this way - the chatbot will only respond to all-caps messages. There's a lot of other weird quirks that I'm going to fix up (I was not a very good programmer 6 years ago).

[Ant]

Any updates? ;)