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            1 Bots
            2 ====
            3 Its very easy to write shell script based bots with ii. As a short example look
            4 at this:
            5 
            6         tail -f \#<CHANNEL>/out |
            7             while read -r date time nick mesg; do
            8                 nick="${nick#<}"
            9                 nick="${nick%>}"
           10                 printf "%s: WHAT??\n" "$nick"
           11             done >#<CHANNEL>/in
           12 
           13 Its just spamming a channel but I guess your imagination is boundless. I also
           14 heard about people using it together with nagios to get the notifications into
           15 IRC. Remember to strip input for example with tr(1), tr -cd "0-9a-zA-Z" for
           16 example would only allow numbers and characters.
           17 
           18 If you want to see a live demonstration of a bot written for ii, join #grml on
           19 freenode, the grml-tips bot which searches for [grml](http://www.grml.org) tips
           20 and gives a link or error messages is written in 45 lines of /bin/sh. No, I
           21 will not publish the code since I really suck in shell programming :)
           22 
           23 Stat scripts
           24 ------------
           25 If you want to use for example [pisg](http://pisg.sf.net/) to generate channel
           26 stats this will also work if you choose the irssi log format.
           27 
           28 Automatic reconnects
           29 --------------------
           30 If you want some kind of automatic reconnects in ii you can make a something
           31 like this in a shell script:
           32 
           33         while true; do
           34             ii -s irc.oftc.net -n iifoo -f "John Doe" &
           35             iipid="$!"
           36             sleep 5
           37             printf "/j %s\n" "#ii" > ~/irc/irc.oftc.net/in
           38             wait "$iipid"
           39         done
           40 
           41 bots for irc it (ii)
           42 ====================
           43 
           44 iibot
           45 -----
           46 [iibot](https://github.com/c00kiemon5ter/iibot) by c00kiemon5ter is written in
           47 bash, but can easily be translated to plain sh (ask him).
           48 
           49 It uses a main script to connect to multiple servers and channels, and
           50 auto-reconnect and auto-join on network failure.
           51 
           52 It reads commands with a leading '!' and calls a secondary script to handle the
           53 command and the responce. That way commands can be added or removed
           54 dynamically. The secondary script knows the network, channel, nick and message
           55 that triggered the command, so it is easy to filter responses to commands to
           56 specified channels, users and such.
           57 
           58 if you need help, do not hesitate to ask c00kiemon5ter on freenode and oftc.
           59 
           60 nagios
           61 ------
           62 Simple Perl script "nagios\_post.pl" as interface between
           63 [Nagios](http://www.nagios.org/) and ii:
           64 
           65         #!/usr/bin/perl -w
           66 
           67         my $users = "your_nickname(s)";
           68         my $pipe = "$ENV{HOME}/irc/your_irc_server/#your_channel/in";
           69         my %color = (
           70            red    => "\0034",
           71            purple => "\0036",
           72            yellow => "\0038",
           73            clear  => "\00315",
           74            blue   => "\0032\002",
           75            green  => "\0033",
           76            normal => "\0031",
           77            );
           78 
           79         open(PIPE, '>', $pipe) or die "Can't write to $pipe: $!";
           80         while (<>) {
           81               s/Host [a-z0-9_.]+ is down/$color{red}$&$color{normal}/i;
           82               s/PROBLEM.*?CRITICAL/$color{red}$&$color{normal}/i;
           83 
           84               s/PROBLEM.*?WARNING/$color{yellow}$&$color{normal}/i;
           85               s/Host [a-z0-9_.]+ is up/$color{green}$&$color{normal}/i;
           86 
           87               s/RECOVERY.*?OK/$color{green}$&$color{normal}/i;
           88 
           89               print PIPE "$users: $_";
           90         }
           91         close(PIPE);
           92 
           93 The appropriate Nagios configuration looks like this:
           94 
           95         # 'notify-by-irc' command definition
           96         define command{
           97                 command_name    notify-by-irc
           98                 command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$TIME$ $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ $HOSTNAME$/$SERVICEDESC$ $SERVICESTATE$ $SERVICEOUTPUT$\n" | /home/nagios/bin/nagios_post.pl
           99                }
          100 
          101         # 'host-notify-by-irc' command-notification
          102         define command{
          103                 command_name    host-notify-by-irc
          104                 command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$TIME$ Host $HOSTALIAS$ is $HOSTSTATE$ -- $HOSTOUTPUT$\n" | /home/nagios/bin/nagios_post.pl
          105                }
          106 
          107 Start ii appropriately and add notify-by-irc and host-notify-by-irc to the
          108 appropriate "service&#x5f;notification&#x5f;commands" and
          109 "host&#x5f;notification&#x5f;commands" -- and you have your own Nagios IRC bot.
          110 
          111 rsstail
          112 -------
          113 Just piping the output of [rsstail](http://www.vanheusden.com/rsstail/) into
          114 the fifo "in" should work. More detailed examples are welcome.