So I did a thing...

Because #IRC is still one of the best chat systems around, despite - or maybe because of - its shortcomings, I am a firm believer of https://xkcd.com/1782/.

At @bawuenet we use a #nagios installation to monitor our systems for availability etc. and to alert if some service goes down. Notifications happen via email and mobile phone push notification via https://pushover.net (great service BTW).

But I wanted the alerts on IRC as well. Which is not difficult, there are multiple IRC Bots already that can send notifications to IRC.

Except I do not want to run another bot as we already have an #eggdrop bot running. For about 25 years now.

So I built an eggdrop script that supports a `.nagios` command to send colorized nagios notifications to a channel and an accompanying expect script that logs into the eggdrop partyline via telnet and triggers the `.nagios` command.

I could have done `.say #channel <msg>` but that get confused when one uses IRC colors. Bummer.

Maybe this can be useful for someone else as well... https://github.com/bawuenet/eggdrop_nagios/tree/master

This #eggdrop #bot powered by #bmotion is the funniest #Artificial #Stupidity, also called #AS, you'll ever meet!.

copernico │ Putting the vor in lavorare since 1245.

#IRC

It's meant for #English texts, but we're using it in Italian as well.. It does get weird too :) Development is halted though :(

https://github.com/jamesoff/bmotion

IRC page screenshot and alt text

#IRC #IM #Dalnet #Eggdrop #Bot

I've just made young friends of mine aware of Internet Relay Chat. They are so excited that we will be using IRC as a Communications protocol.

I have accounts on different server networks which are still thriving
I remember the wonderful Eggdrop bot running on the AmIRC channel on Dalnet

#IRC #IM #Dalnet #Eggdrop #Bot #AmIRC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC?wprov=sfla1

I reconnected with #AmIRC the client, you may ask? No. My favourite mail client #Thunderbird reminded me that it can connect to real instant mgs networks and it showed libera.chat as a network for #IRC
I immediately thought about the awsome #eggdrop #bot the AmIRC channel had on #Undernet so I went looking for a client for my #OpenSource OS which is #Linux on this machine #freeBSD on systems running a #ZFS #NAS distro

https://www.undernet.org/

#programming #OpenSource #POSIX #SocialMedia