scrawl hangs

greg27 · Idler Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 255 Location: Australia

(08:53:37pm) *** Notice -- Client connecting on port 6667: scrawl87 (scrawl@data.searchirc.org) [clients]
... and a bit later ...
(10:09:16pm) *** Notice -- Client exiting: scrawl87 (scrawl@data.searchirc.org) [Quit: [SearchIRC] Indexed 81 channels in 226 secs @ Oct 7th, 2008, 7:39 am]

i don't have a problem with the scrawl idling, but i'm not sure if this is a new feature or an error. so yea, just so you know Smile

Jonathan · none Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 14

Yeah it's been doing every now and then for me, but it's very infrequent.

Jason · Posted: Oct 07, 2008 5:46pm Post subject:

you guys saying it's acting differently? What did it do before?

Lyhne1 · Posted: Oct 07, 2008 5:48pm Post subject:

i saw that couple times too.But for most part its on about min then gone...Give jason some time sure he will get the bugs work before too long.

it hang out on network for 30min to hour.

Anarchy · Posted: Oct 07, 2008 9:53pm Post subject:

oddly this has not happen on my networks that i monitor

zeke · Idler Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 334

i've noticed it several times, where a scrawl bot will hang around for several minutes.

Typically is connected for around 10s and disconnects again.

Amilhela · none Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Posts: 5

I usually watch scrawl's connections to the network that I admin on, and there was one time in the last 48 hours (I can't remember the exact time of day that it occured so no log) that scrawl did connect and stayed on for about 20 minutes before disconnecting. I double-checked to make sure it wasn't just my client - I logged on with another system on another ISP after about 10 minutes to make sure I was seeing things correctly and scrawl was still there.

I don't think it has happened since then, but I don't idle on the server much because my main system is my laptop. No one else on the staff has mentioned it staying for that long again though.

Anarchy · Posted: Oct 07, 2008 10:26pm Post subject:

maybe i just don't notice it cause i don't care if it hangs out some one said it does that on a few networks also

Jonathan · none Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 14

Yeah, I don't actively note it the quit messages like that, it just catches my eye when it says it took 264 seconds instead of the usual 10.

I figure that it's stuck in a loop or something, and then some sort of master policy invokes a different function call to make it quit after a maximum of x seconds or something.

Or maybe Jason is slowly taking over the world
(that was a joke)

Amilhela · none Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Posts: 5

Amilhela · none Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Posts: 5

It finally disconnected - right around the end of the 30 minute edit window on posts here :S It is responding to versions, so I'm going to assume that yes, it is getting stuck in a loop. I wonder if it might be related to what ircd/services combo is being used, since it seems to only be happening to a few of us? Though I really don't know what could be causing it to happen only at random intervals and not every time it attempts /list

We are a small network (less than 150 users) so we run the (sometimes reviled) Unreal 3.2.7 with Anope 1.6.5 (not my choice - I didn't install Anope and will be upgrading to the 1.7.x series soon). Like Anarchy, I don't care/mind if scrawl is connected longer than usual, I just would like to figure out *why* it is connecting for such a long period of time.

[01:04] *** (s) *** Notice -- Client connecting on port 6667: scrawl41 (scrawl@data.searchirc.org) [clients]

[02:18] *** scrawl41 is scrawl @ DAC-8601C47E.searchirc.org
[02:18] *** scrawl41 is «SearchIRC Crawler»
[02:18] *** scrawl41 is using modes +ix; connecting from *@data.searchirc.org 72.64.145.20
[02:18] *** scrawl41 idle 1 hr 13 min 54 s, signed on «Wed 8th Oct 2008 01:04a»

[02:20] *** (s) *** Notice -- Client exiting: scrawl41 (scrawl@data.searchirc.org) [Quit: [SearchIRC] Indexed 49 channels in 268 secs @ Oct 8th, 2008, 3:20 am]
[02:34] *** (s) *** Notice -- Client connecting on port 6667: scrawl11 (scrawl@data.searchirc.org) [clients]
[02:34] *** (s) *** Notice -- Client exiting: scrawl11 (scrawl@data.searchirc.org) [Quit: [SearchIRC] Error: No channels found.]

greg27 · Idler Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 255 Location: Australia

as i said in my original post, i don't have a problem with the scrawl idling, but connecting to my server for over an hour (even though it says "indexed 81 channels in 226 secs", which is more like four minutes) when it usually takes 10 seconds probably isn't doing the searchirc server any favours.

mediadaemon · none Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 10

I know this is an old thread, but I have been searching for an answer to this question myself.

We have a script that checks for users that aren't in channels, as we have a lot of users who will idle around and harrass other's via PM. I've noticed as of late, that from time to time, the scrawler gets noticed by this script, which is unusual.

You can see in the logs I've posted that sometimes the bot sits around for several hours. I don't believe my network is large enough to be counted as a big network to stay connected to. So this makes me wonder what is wrong with the bots currently.

The other curious thing, is every now and then, the bot will change it's nickname while being connected to the network. You can see all this in the following string of logs:

mediadaemon · none Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 10

Since I can't edit the above, here is a better view:

Again you can see it claims it's done in 300 seconds or less, but is connected for far longer in most of the cases.
And also, the nick change makes me curious.