Faq section
[q] What is a shell account ?
[a] A shell account is basically a personal account on a server that's
connected to the Internet via a dedicated, high-speed connection. Shell accounts
run the Unix operating system. You access the shell via telnet, SSH, (telnets
are not that preferred to access shell accounts because they can be DoSed thus
admins don't allow connect through telnet) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The
account provides you with space (usually around 5 MB to 15 MB for basic
accounts) for storing files and running programs on the Unix machine. The most
popular flavours of o/s you'll encounter with shell accounts are the Linux and
FreeBSD operating systems.
[q] What is a BNC ?
[a] The main goal of having shell accounts is changing your current IP
into a virtual one, (usually called vhost), for example you can have local@i.like.happy.people.net
- To have such an IP you need to forwardd people.net IP (from where you
registered it, usually register.com or you can have your own DNS on the same
machine) and local would be the login of where you connect to a server.
[q] What is an eggdrop ?
[a] Eggdrop is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) program for Linux or UNIX
users that sits in the background of an IRC channel to manage and protect a
chat. Eggdrop, sometimes referred to as a "bot" (short for
"robot") program, allows the chat manager to keep a list of users,
erase users who haven't been on the channel within a specific time period, keep
a list of users who have been banned, prevent channel flooding, and perform
other common chat channel management tasks.
[q] How do I make a config file for my eggdrop, im too lazy to read
everything?!
[a] For that we have our "Online Eggdrop Configuration
generator".
This generator allows users of eggdrop bots to quickly and easily create the
needed configuration files online.
the url is: (here)
[q] What is an energymech ?
[a] The EnergyMech is a fully functional IRC bot, written entirely in the
C programming language. It has common features such as userlists, shitlists,
channel protection, DCC partyline, linking and lots more.
The EnergyMech started out as a hack of the combot but is today quite different
and more sophisticated. One of the main ideas of the EnergyMech is that it
should be easy both to setup and use. The popular eggdrop requires that TCL is
installed on a system for it to compile sucessfully, the EnergyMech has no such
requirements. A person that is familiar with UNIX would have no trouble
installing an EnergyMech and getting it up and running.
[q] What are TCL scripts?
[a] Tcl is an interpreted script language.
Eggdrop allows you to add TCL scripts. It is much like adding a script to mIRC.
A standard eggdrop bot does not do certain things, such as give news to users,
greet on-join, and other things. Eggdrop is scriptable much like mIRC, however.
You can add scripts that others have written, or you can write your own. A TCL
Script can be written to do just about anything that you could do yourself, or
that a mIRC script can do.
[q] What is SSH?
[a] Secure Shell is a program to log into another computer over a
network, to execute commands in a remote machine, and to move files from one
machine to another. It provides strong authentication and secure communications
over unsecure channels. It is intended as a replacement for telnet, rlogin, rsh,
and rcp. For SSH2, there is a replacement for FTP: sftp.
[q] How do I kill one of my running background processes ?
[a] Type 'ps x' to see a list of processes you have running. Then you
should find the Process ID (PID) of the process you want to kill (it is in the
column labelled PID). They type 'kill -9
[q] How do I change my password ?
[a] To change your password, issue the command "passwd" at the
UNIX command prompt. You will be prompted to enter your old password then enter
your new password twice.