Public test game

[Greg Taylor]

I've finally bit the bullet and set up a test game on dev.evennia.com,
port 4000. I'll try to hang out in here more often. The test game is
also on IMC as 'Evennia'.

[Griatch]

Beginning with commit 650, Evennia now 'sports the ability to connect
an IRC channel to an Evennia channel with a bot. The engine also
properly relay between all mappings of a channel - so people on IRC,
IMC and on the mud itself can all talk together by mapping to the same
evennia channel.

Something for the test server maybe? ;)
.
Griatch

[Greg Taylor]

Sounds pretty cool, just let me know what I need to do to get this bridged and I will.

Thanks,

Greg Taylor
Level Eleven Solutions, LLC
Cell: (864) 888-7964
http://l11solutions.com

[Griatch]

I did some updates in later commits (a mapping command was not
commited properly in r650).

If you want to link to the #evennia IRC channel on irc.freenode.net,
this is the procedure, shortened from the Wiki:

1) Move the IRC section from config_defaults into settings.py.
------------
#Activate the IRC bot.
IRC_ENABLED = True
#Which IRC network (e.g. irc.freenode.net)
IRC_NETWORK = "irc.freenode.net"
#Which IRC port to connect to (e.g. 6667)
IRC_PORT = 6667
#Which channel on the network to connect to (including the #)
IRC_CHANNEL = "#evennia"
#Under what nickname should Evennia connect to the channel
IRC_NICKNAME = "ebot"
--------------

Name the bot something simple, like "evennia-bot" or "ebot" with
IRC_NICK. This is the bot that will connect to the IRC channel.
Restart game. You will see in the log how the bot connects (I should
probably move this to MUDinfo later). This bot will be "persistent",
you can also join other IRC channels later using @ircjoin, but these
will not survive a shutdown (not sure it should).

2) In-game, you might already have a channel linked to IMC2, e.g.
ievennia. You bridge using the @irc2chan command (you can also use the
admin interface, haven't tested this for irc though).

> @irc2chan #evennia ievennia

If there was no mapping to IMC before (and you are connected to IMC):

> @imc2chan Server01:ievennia ievennia

Everyone on Evennia, IRC and IMC should now be able to talk to each
other! :-)
.
Griatch

On Aug 28, 5:39 pm, Greg Taylor <gtay...@l11solutions.com> wrote:
> Sounds pretty cool, just let me know what I need to do to get this bridged
> and I will.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg Taylor
> Level Eleven Solutions, LLC

> Cell: (864) 888-7964http://l11solutions.com

[Griatch]

The Test server remains offline or fails with a django error for me
upon login. It has been that way for almost a month now.
.
Griatch

[Gregory Taylor]

I haven't seen this on my character. I updated and restarted it. Do
you still see the error?

[Griatch]

Yes, now it works. :-) I was not the only one to see the error, by the
way. Others in the IRC channel reported the same issue trying to log
in to the server directly. Anyway, works now, thanks.
.
Griatch

[George Oliver]

Someone is probably already aware of this, but I get this when trying
to connect:


You are now logged in as george.
Untrapped error, please file a bug report:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/evennia/evennia/src/cmdhandler.py", line 405, in handle
command.command_function(command)
File "/home/evennia/evennia/src/commands/general.py", line 141, in
cmd_look
source_object.emit_to(target_obj.scriptlink.return_appearance
(pobject=source_object))
File "/home/evennia/evennia/src/script_parents/basicobject.py", line
115, in return_appearance
show_dbrefs = pobject.sees_dbrefs()
File "/home/evennia/evennia/src/objects/models.py", line 285, in
sees_dbrefs
return looker_user.has_perm('genperms.builder')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-
py2.6.egg/django/contrib/auth/models.py", line 239, in has_perm
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-
py2.6.egg/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 27, in get_backends
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-
py2.6.egg/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 14, in load_backend
ImproperlyConfigured: Error importing authentication backend
django.contrib.auth.backends: "No module named backends"



Are there any other Evennia servers up and running?

[Greg Taylor]

This should be fixed now, give it another shot.

[Griatch]

The ebot is running fine and seems to work, but trying to log onto the
test server using a normal mud client has not worked for me for a
while; I get a network timeout like the server cannot be found. Is it
just something fishy from my end or has the server changed location or
something?
.
Griatch

[Griatch]

@gtaylor

I cannot check the test game at the moment, but the ebot is gone from
the IRC channel and has been for some time. Are there issues with the
test game?
.
Griatch