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running a bot 24/7 (Bots)

running a bot 24/7 // Bots

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scifair

Mar 8, 2002, 6:00pm
Hi,

Has anyone here ever set up their bot to always be running? Ie, you have a
world and you need your bot on always...

I'm working on the Windows platform. Now sometimes my bot will die for
whatever reason. This is somewhat outside the scope of bot programming, but
does anyone have a strategy they've been using which keeps their bots going,
ie after crash, the bot is restarted immediately... I can think of a few
ways, but I was wondering if someone already has an implementation that's
been effective in practice.

Thanks,

Omar

jerme

Mar 8, 2002, 6:47pm
You can write a shell scrit to do this, I believe. Maybe Andras has done
something of this nature. Try posting over in his newsgroups
(news.andras.net).

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dion

Mar 8, 2002, 7:31pm
I use a dedicated Windows 98 computer. 150mhz 250mb HDD

That computer is not used for anything other than being the gateway for the
Local Area Network in my home and a few other uses. I host a world on there
and it is up 24/7 no problem. The computer crashes maybe once or twice a
month but automatically reboots and the world server opens up and everything
gets connected on its own. It takes literally about 25-30seconds to reboot.
So make a 25second downtime once a month. That's pretty good, especially
considering it's a windows 98 with 150mhz! :-P

But anyway, even with some shitty dedicated machine you can host a bot on
easily. If the bot is a paintball bot or RPG or some sort it might be better
not to put it on a slow computer thought. But if it's just some regular bot,
you can bring up some old shitty computer from your basement just as long as
it has enough room for windows and can connect to the internet (or LAN).

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strike rapier

Mar 8, 2002, 9:49pm
Xelagot should return even after a windows crash, allthough if it is on the
taskbar your going to have 1 hell of a hard time getting acess to teh user
interface.


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dion

Mar 8, 2002, 9:56pm
I said that cause RPG and paintball bots would be very laggy on a 150mhz
machine :-P
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