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<!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "supybot.dtd">
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<article>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Jeremiah</firstname>
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<surname>Fincher</surname>
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</author>
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<editor>
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<firstname>Daniel</firstname>
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<surname>DiPaolo</surname>
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<contrib>DocBook translator</contrib>
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</editor>
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</authorgroup>
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<title>Getting started with Supybot</title>
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<revhistory>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>0.1</revnumber>
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<date>18 Feb 2004</date>
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<revremark>Initial Docbook translation</revremark>
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</revision>
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</revhistory>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1>
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>
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Ok, so you've decided to try out Supybot. That's great! The more
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people who use Supybot, the more people can submit bugs and help
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us to make it the best IRC bot in the world :)
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</para>
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<para>
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First things first: Supybot <emphasis>requires</emphasis> Python
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2.3. There ain't no getting around it. If you're a Python
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developer, you probably know how superior 2.3 is to previous
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incarnations. If you're not, just think about the difference
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between a bowl of plain vanilla ice cream and a banana split. Or
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something like that. Either way, <emphasis>we're</emphasis>
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Python developers and we like banana splits.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Installing the bot and its utilities</title>
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<para>
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So what do you do? First thing you'll want to do is run (with
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root/admin privileges) <application>python setup.py
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install</application>. This will install Supybot globally. If
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you need to install locally for whatever reason, see this <ulink
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url="http://tinyurl.com/2tb37">forum post</ulink> on how to do so.
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You'll then have several new programs installed where Python
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scripts are normally installed on your system
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(<filename>/usr/bin</filename> or
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<filename>/usr/local/bin</filename> are common on UNIX systems;
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<filename>C:\Python23\Scripts</filename> is a common place on
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Windows; and (watch out, this is a long one :))
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<filename>/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin</filename>
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is a common place on MacOS X.). The two that might be of
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particular interest to you, the new user, are
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<script>supybot</script> and
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<script>supybot-wizard</script> The former
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(<script>supybot</script> is the script to run an actual
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bot; the latter (<script>supybot-wizard</script> is an
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in-depth wizard that provides a nice user interface for creating
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configuration files for your bot. We'd prefer you to the use
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<script>supybot-wizard</script>, but if you're in a
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hurry or don't feel like being asked many questions, just run
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supybot with no arguments and it'll ask you only the questions
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necessary ")to run a bot.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Firing up the bot for the first time</title>
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<para>
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So after running either of those two programs, you've got a nice
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registry file handy. If you're not satisfied with your answers
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to any of the questions you were asked, feel free to run the
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program again until you're satisfied with all your answers. Once
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you're satisfied, though, run the
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<script>supybot</script> program with the
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registry file you created as an argument. This will start the
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bot; unless you turned off logging to stdout, you'll see some nice
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log messages describing what the bot is doing at any particular
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moment; it may pause for a significant amount of time after saying
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"Connecting to ..." while the server tries to check its ident.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Your first interactions with the bot</title>
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<para>
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Ok, so let's assume your bot connected to the server fine and
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joined the channels you told it to join. For now we'll assume you
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named your bot <nick>supybot</nick> (you probably didn't,
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but it'll make it much clearer in the examples that follow to
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assume that you did). We'll also assume that you told it to join
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<channel>#channel</channel> (a nice generic name for a channel,
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isn't it? :)) So what do you do with this bot that you just made
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to join your channel? Try this in the channel:
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</para>
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<ircsession>
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supybot: list
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</ircsession>
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<para>
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Replacing <nick>supybot</nick> with the actual name you
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picked for your bot, of course. Your bot should reply with a list
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of the plugins he currently has loaded. At least
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<plugin>Admin</plugin>, <plugin>Channel</plugin>,
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<plugin>Config</plugin>, <plugin>Misc</plugin>,
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<plugin>Owner</plugin>, and <plugin>User</plugin> should be
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there; if you used <script>supybot-wizard</script> to
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create your configuration file you may have many more plugins
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loaded. The <botcommand>list</botcommand> command can also be used to
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list the commands in a given plugin:
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</para>
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<ircsession>
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supybot: list Misc
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</ircsession>
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<para>
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Will list all the commands in the <plugin>Misc</plugin> plugin.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Accessing the bot's online help</title>
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<para>
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If you want to see the help for any command, just use
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the <botcommand>help</botcommand> command:
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</para>
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<ircsession>
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supybot: help help
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supybot: help list
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supybot: help load
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</ircsession>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Dealing with ambiguous commands</title>
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<para>
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Sometimes more than one plugin will have a given command; for
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instance, the <botcommand>list</botcommand> command exists in both
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the <plugin>Misc</plugin> and <plugin>Config</plugin>
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plugins (both loaded by default). <plugin>List</plugin>, in
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this case, defaults to the <plugin>Misc</plugin> plugin, but
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you may want to get the help for the
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<botcommand>list</botcommand>
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command in the <plugin>Config</plugin> plugin. In that
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case, you'll want to give your command like this:
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</para>
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<ircsession>
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supybot: help config list
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</ircsession>
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<para>
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Anytime your bot tells you that a given command is defined in
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several plugins, you'll want to use this syntax
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(<botcommand>plugin command</botcommand>) to disambiguate which
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plugin's command you wish to call. For instance, if you
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wanted to call the <plugin>Config</plugin> plugin's
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<botcommand>list</botcommand> command, then you'd need to say:
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</para>
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<ircsession>
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supybot: config list
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</ircsession>
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<para>
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Rather than just <botcommand>list</botcommand>.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Loading plugins</title>
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<para>
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Now that you know how to deal with plugins having commands
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with the same name, let's take a look at loading other
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plugins. If you didn't use
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<script>supybot-wizard</script>, though, you might
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do well to try it before playing around with loading plugins
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yourself: each plugin has its own
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<function>configure</function> function that the wizard uses
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to setup the appropriate registry entries if the plugin
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requires any.
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</para>
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<sect3>
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<title>Identifying yourself as the bot owner</title>
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<para>
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Now, if you do want to play around with loading plugins,
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you're going to need to have the
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<capability>owner</capability>
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capability. If you ran the wizard, then chances are you
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already added an owner user for yourself. If not,
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however, you can add one via the handy-dandy
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<script>supybot-adduser</script> script. You'll
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want to run it while the bot is not running (otherwise it
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could overwrite
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<script>supybot-adduser</script>'s changes to
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your user database before you get a chance to reload
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them). Just follow the prompts, and when it asks if you
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want to give the user any capabilities, say yes and then
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give yourself the <capability>owner</capability> capability
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(without the quotes), restart the bot and you'll be ready
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to load some plugins!
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</para>
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<para>
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Now, in order for the bot to recognize you as your owner
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user, you'll have to identify with the bot. Open up a
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query window in your irc client (/query should do it; if
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not, just know that you can't identify in a channel
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because it requires sending your password to the bot).
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Then type this:
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</para>
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<ircsession>
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help identify
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</ircsession>
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<para>
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And follow the instructions; the command you send will
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probably look like this, with your owner user and password
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replaced:
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</para>
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<ircsession>
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identify myowneruser myuserpassword
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</ircsession>
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<para>
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The bot will tell you that “The operation
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succeeded” if you got the right name and password.
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Now that you're identified, you can do anything that
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requires any privilege: that includes all the commands in
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the <plugin>Owner</plugin> and <plugin>Admin</plugin>
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plugins, which you may want to take a look at (using the
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<botcommand>list</botcommand> and
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<botcommand>help</botcommand>
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commands, of course). One command in particular that you
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might want to use (it's from the <plugin>User</plugin>
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plugin) is the <botcommand>addhostmask</botcommand> command: it
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lets you add a hostmask to your user record so the bot
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recognizes you by your hostmask instead of requiring you
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to always identify with it before it recognizes you. Use
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the <botcommand>help</botcommand> command to see how this
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command works. Here's how I often use it:
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</para>
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<ircsession>
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addhostmask myuser [hostmask] mypassword
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</ircsession>
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<para>
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You may not have seen that "[hostmask]" syntax before.
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Supybot allows nested commands, which means that any
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command's output can be nested as an argument to another
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command. The hostmask command from the
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<plugin>Misc</plugin> plugin returns the hostmask of a
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given nick, but if given no arguments, it returns the
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hostmask of the person giving the command. So the command
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above adds the hostmask I'm currently using to my user's
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list of recognized hostmasks. I'm only required to give
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<literal>mypassword</literal> if I'm not already
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identified with the bot.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>The <botcommand>more</botcommand> command</title>
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<para>
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Another command you might find yourself needing somewhat often
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is the <botcommand>more</botcommand> command. The IRC protocol
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limits messages to 512 bytes, 60 or so of which must be
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devoted to some bookkeeping. Sometimes, however, Supybot
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wants to send a message that's longer than that. What it
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does, then, is break it into "chunks" and send the first one,
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following it with "(X more messages)" where X is how many more
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chunks there are. To get to these chunks, use the more
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command. One way to try is to look at the listing of
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configuration groups for the bot (more on this in the
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CONFIGURATION document) by giving the command "config list
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supybot". Last I checked, it'll overflow into a second chunk.
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When you invoke this command, you should see output like:
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</para>
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<ircsession>
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<supybot> nick, ident, user, server, password, channels, prefixChars,
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defaultCapabilities, defaultAllow, defaultIgnore,
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humanTimestampFormat, externalIP, bracketSyntax, pipeSyntax,
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followIdentificationThroughNickChanges, alwaysJoinOnInvite,
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showSimpleSyntax, maxHistoryLength, nickmods, throttleTime,
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snarfThrottle, threadAllCommands, pingServer, pingInterval,
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upkeepInterval, flush, (1 more message)
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</ircsession>
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<para>
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Now, to see the rest of the output, simply give the command
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<botcommand>more</botcommand>, and it will show you the rest:
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</para>
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<ircsession>
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<jemfinch> more
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<supybot> httpPeekSize, and defaultSocketTimeout
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</ircsession>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>You're ready!</title>
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<para>
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You should now have a solid foundation for using Supybot. Be sure
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to check the help that is built-in to the bot itself if you have
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any questions, and enjoy using Supybot!
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</para>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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