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

evenson <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:20:18 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.common-lisp-net.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
ACK. I will tackle that first then.

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On Nov 16, 2023, at 16:04, David Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:



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 <[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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