Eggdrop Help!

edude · 09-20-2002, 12:31 PM

hey all,

I need some help with eggdrop 1.6.12

i get an error when i try to start eggdrop via commandline. /root/eggdrop/eggdrop thats what i type to start it.
and i get this error:
*ERROR: Eggdrop will not run as root!
How do i run it as eggdrop?

Thanks....

Note: it was a source installation if you need that.

kezz · 09-20-2002, 10:04 PM

move the zipfile to a normal user's homedir and install it from there. It is dangerous to run IRC as root and the programmer obviously added a little protection to his bot

Kezz

edude · 09-21-2002, 10:13 AM

yes he did put protection, i have a seperate user called eggdrop running the eggdrop program, now this is my next question i have a trivia script that is in zip format now are there any zip extracters for linux? Mandrake Cooker that is.

MasterC · 09-21-2002, 12:05 PM

If it's truly a .zip file:
unzip filename.zip
and that's it.

Cool