Broken CL Bots (was: Re: common-lisp.net http stopped running)

I think one of the more urgent bots is the one on #common-lisp.net which authenticates new signups for our gitlab. 









Dave Cooper








---- On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 02:27:32 -0500 Mark Evenson <[email protected]> wrote ---





> On Nov 16, 2023, at 08:25, Philipp Marek <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
>> I can shed a bit of light on that: the bots were alledgedly continuously 
>> reconnecting to the IRC network. 
> 
> Yes, because they crashed every time - ISTR some IRC library wasn't compatible 
> with an updated SBCL and we ran into some ERROR condition _after_ connecting. 
> 
> Then the shell script restarted them... 
> 
 
Thanks for the information:  more than enough for me to debug when I get the time. 
 
 
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