Mozbot HOWTO

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Mozbot is an IRC bot. It can display information on bug reports from Bugzilla, changes in the Tinderbox status, report the sheriff of the tree, manage channels access lists, and work as an infobot or quizbot.

Installation

Those steps guide you how to install a mozbot on your shell. It's written in Perl and is easy to use and configure.

Please note you need to have Perl enabled by emailing admin AT shellium DOT org.

• Download

wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/webtools/mozbot-LATEST.tar.gz 

• Follow the installation guide to get the bot started:
  • Run chmod +x mozbot.pl
  • Type ./mozbot.pl in the Mozbot directory.
  • Specify the private channel which the bot should initially join. It's not recommended to allow the bot in a public channel until your admin account was setup.
  • Use those to setup your admin account:

/msg mozbot auth admin password

/msg mozbot newuser <username> <password> <password>

/msg mozbot bless <username>

/msg mozbot auth <username> <password>

/msg mozbot auth <username> <password>

The temporary user 'admin' is now deleted.

• See 'help' and 'vars <module name>' for configuration settings.

How to keep Mozbot running

• Run screen in your shell. Then, type cd moz* and then ./mozbot.pl. Detach: ^a d.

OR

• Navigate to your Mozbot directory, then do nohup ./mozbot.pl &/

External links

• modules documentation
• APIs
• Hacking page