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Hello!
I'm very much interested in your shells, since I would love to use screen + irssi to keep myself connected to IRC servers 24/7.

However, I do have a couple of questions. I was wondering if you had a limit on the number of channels/servers you can connect to. As I am typing this, my IRC client (irssi ) is connected to 6 servers and 19 channels, and I suppose the maximum amount of servers and channels I will ever join would be 8 servers and 30 channels (maximum).

My second question is if logging is allowed. I log everything (private messages, chat room text, etc), but eventually logfiles do get rather large, so I was wondering that, if logging is allowed, how large is the log directory allowed to get?

Thank you for listening to these questions, and I await a response!
- Nintendud

There is no set limit against how many networks/channels you can connect to.

You can log anything you want, so long as your total files don't go over the 500MB limit and your total bandwidth doesn't exceed 4GB/month, you can connect to as many irc nets as you want to.

Alright, problem.

I've connected to two IRC servers with the shell using irssi, and now, if I try to connect to a third one, I get the following error message:

-!- Irssi: warning server_connect(): pipe() failed.

It doesn't matter what server I try, they all error out. Any solutions?

EDIT: Okay, I've connected to a third server, but I error out trying to connect to a fourth. Arr. What is the problem?

EDIT: ANOTHER PROBLEM! I'm logging everything, right? Alright. So, I just decided to go away. PROBLEM!
Error:
-!- Irssi: Couldn't create log file /home/nintendud/.irssi/away.log: Too many open files

Does this mean I can't use the shell for what I want to? (Use irssi, connect to about 5 servers or so, and remain online all the time, logging everything)
;_;

EDIT: Now I can suddenly connect to another server.. what is the problem here?

No idea about the server thing, as its not consistend i'd say its actually somthing to do with the servers (or routes to) you are trying to connect to.

With the open files thing, thats a systemwide limit on users, if you feel you should be exempt for whatever reason, come and talk to me on IRC and I will consider it.

For the record, if you can't achieve it here it is unlikely any free shell provider will be able to allow you to achieve you goal. I am extremely doubtful any provider is more open and restrictionless than us.

The only reason so many files are open is probably due to logging, since irssi will be logging everything said in every channel I am in.
I really only need the eggdrop for this feature: always staying connected to IRC, logging everything. I even asked if it would be a problem in this thread if I was logging everything, and if I joined that many channels, and it was responded with that it would be fine, and possible.

Now I wonder if I'll even be able to do that

EDIT: Maybe that only happens when I go away? I don't know... I'll have to see how my logs are shaping up

EDIT2: Also, as for the servers, they all work fine from any other IRC client. Is there some connection limit on the server or something? I feel like I'm fighting for another connection or something...

EDIT3: My logs are in fact fine. Now, how should I go about fixing the connection limit?

EDIT4: Okay, I just opened a PM window, and irssi said it couldn't save it because of too many open files. I guess I won't be able to do this after all?

To prevent abuse user accounts are limited to a certain ammount of open files, as I said this can be changed if I decide you deserve for it to happen.

There is no serverwide limit on connections, there are user limits but if you have exceeded them then you will never be able to connect to additional servers which you have managed to do and that means that you havn't hit them.

Then... what could be the problem? Could the number of open files be making this happen?

SOLVED! Tim is my HERO!