How To Make An Eggdrop

The first thing you want to do, is to load the Eggdrop you have chosen to use onto your shell. You can do this via FTP. Once the Eggdrop is on your shell, you want to Telnet to your shell and get in the directory where the Eggdrop is. NOTE: Caps matter in Telnet.) Once you are in that directory you want to type the following. (I will use eggdrop1.3.27.tar.gz as an example)....( Notice that on some windows computers, when downloading the eggdrop file it changes the last ext. to .tar, after ftp'ing your file over to your shell account rename it back to eggdrop1.3.27.tar.gz or whatever version you are using.)

After you have uploaded the file to your shell account, telnet in and after logging in type this command:

1. gunzip eggdrop1.3.27.tar.gz
   After that's done type:
2. tar -xvf eggdrop1.3.27.tar
   then change to the eggdrop's new dir cd eggdrop1.3.27
   and type the following
3. ./configure
   This make take a second. DO NOT interrupt it
   After this is done type the following
4. make install DEST=~/DIR-NAME/BOTNAME
   (If you get lots of errors when you try to start it up at the end, try using 'make static' to compile it and then try again. *Example* make install DEST=~/dalnet/DarkSun )
   This will create the bot DarkSun in the directory dalnet, if the directory you are installing the bot to doesn't exist you'll need to create it by typing mkdir dir-name do not do this from within the eggdrop directory itself but from your home (main) directory.)

   The last step will take quiet a while. So sit back and relax :) . Once the Eggdrop is done making type cd to leave your eggdrops directory and then type cd dirname/botname, *remember caps and syntax is important in shell accounts, NOTE: Make sure you copy the Eggdrop.conf.dist from the original file to the new one if you changed folders. Now it is time to edit the Eggdrop.conf.dist. To see what one of our config files looks like click here

   Or you can right click and click on save link as and edit it on your computer in wordpad. This is what makes your bot run. There are 2 ways to edit it. On Telnet you can type: pico eggdrop.conf.dist. Or you can download the file on FTP and view it on wordpad. Its your choice. Please download this file. It is instructions on how to edit your config. After you edit that it is time to start your bot up. Get in your bot file and type the following:
5. ./eggdrop -m eggdrop.conf
   ( with some like us for instance, we name our bots a single name leaving off the .conf, thereby making it easier. We also use a different config file than what's provided with eggdrop, which i'll provide for your use here.) The bot should start up and go to the channel you specified in the config. Now on IRC type:
6. /msg BOTNICK hello
   
7. /msg BOTNICK pass PASSWORD
   

Congratulations!!! You have just setup and run an Eggdrop bot