I was searching for bar tricks on youtube, and some how came across this video. It’s effing hilarious!

I wish I was there. “They did it!”

Update: The official version in Gentoo’s repo has been bumped for a while now including the SSL patch. You shouldn’t need to follow the instructions here.

We rebuilt our server a few weeks ago, and I was just now getting around to putting eggdrop on it again and setting up the sh17radio bot we had before.

I installed eggdrop-1.6.18 through portage, and everything was cool until I tried to connect via SSL.

[code]
[02:35] Trying server irc.thesh17.com:7000
[02:35] DNS resolved irc.thesh17.com to x.x.x.x
[02:35] net_switch_to_ssl()
[02:38] SSL_connect() = -1, error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
[02:38] SSL Failed connect to irc.thesh17.com (Error while switching to SSL).
[/code]

Apparently eggdrop has some issues with SSL on 64 bit systems, but Egghelp has a few patches to fix this.   eggdrop 1.6.19 has been out since April, but the ebuilds in Gentoo Portage haven’t been updated yet for whatever reason so I took it upon myself to update my own ebuild and share it here.

Note:  I did find this gentoo bug for a version bump.   This is where the  eggdrop-1.6.19-patches-1.0.tar.bz2 file came from with all of the patches.

How to install the eggdrop-1.6.19 ebuild?

If you already have a local portage overlay set up, ignore step 1 & 2.   Otherwise, we need to create a portage overlay directory and add it to make.conf.

1. [code]mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/net-irc/eggdrop[/code]
2. [code]echo ‘PORTDIR_OVERLAY=”/usr/local/portage”‘ >> /etc/make.conf[/code]
3. Now we need to actually download/install the updated ebuild
   [code lang=”bash”]cd /usr/local/portage/net-irc/eggdrop
   wget http://www.thesh17.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/eggdrop-1619-tstar.bz2
   tar xvjf eggdrop-1619-tstar.bz2[/code]
4. After we extract it, delete the tarball and copy the patches to the distfiles directory
   [code]rm -f eggdrop-1619-tstar.bz2 ; cp -v files/eggdrop-1.6.19-patches-1.0.tar.bz2 /usr/portage/distfiles/[/code]
5. You’ll probably need to add eggdrop to your package.keywords file now, so change amd64 to whatever keyword you would normally use on your system (Note:  I only added it specifically for this version)
   [code]echo “=net-irc/eggdrop-1.6.19 ~amd64” >> /etc/portage/package.keywords[/code]
6. Now, emerge!
   [code]emerge -av eggdrop[/code]
7. If you haven’t used eggrop before, then you’d want to log in as the user you’re planning to run it on then run ‘eggdrop-installer’

After installing the new ebuild, everything connects successfully 🙂

[code]
[02:55] main: entering loop
[02:55] Trying server irc.thesh17.com:7000
[02:55] DNS resolved irc.thesh17.com to x.x.x.x
[02:55] net_switch_to_ssl()
[02:55] SSL_connect() success
[02:55] net: connect! sock 8
[02:55] Connected to irc.thesh17.com
[/code]

Expect more posts later on, and check out my previous eggdrop post if you want to set up a bot that announces shoutcast stations.

Post in the comments if you have any trouble getting it to work and I’ll help you out.