From f785d9716758aa4319cef1f12cafaa617fcff471 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 06:57:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed users/channels instantiation to allow for non-existent
 files

---
 src/ircdb.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ircdb.py b/src/ircdb.py
index 6e97870e1..b0f5529d7 100644
--- a/src/ircdb.py
+++ b/src/ircdb.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 
 from fix import *
 
+import os
 import time
 import atexit
 import string
@@ -344,7 +345,16 @@ class ChannelsDictionary(object):
 ###
 # Later, I might add some special handling for botnet.
 ###
+if not os.path.exists(conf.userfile):
+    fd = open(conf.userfile, 'w')
+    fd.write('{}')
+    fd.close()
 users = UsersDictionary(conf.userfile)
+
+if not os.path.exists(conf.channelfile):
+    fd = file(conf.channelfile, 'w')
+    fd.write('{}')
+    fd.close()
 channels = ChannelsDictionary(conf.channelfile)
 
 atexit.register(users.flush)