infobot/conf/infobot.config-dist

# parameter settings file for the infobot
# kevin lenzo (lenzo@cs.cmu.edu)

# note:
#   '$var' means a parameter that has been named; it is interpolated.
#   By convention, things with '.ext' (extensions) are text files, and
#   things with hyphens in them are DBM file prefixes, used for run-time
#   learning or state maintenance.
#
# Nota Bene: Comment out attributes you don't want. Note that the
#            word "false" is actually a true value! use 0 or comment
#            out options you don't want.

# the internal name for this bot
ident            i-bot

# the nickname we want
wantNick         $ident

# the prefix of the dbm files
dbname           $ident

# where to put logging info
logfile          $dbname.log

# plusplus, an idea hijacked from CMU zephyr community,
# and dkindred++ in particular. Otherwise known
# as 'karma'.  this is persistant between shutdowns.

plusplus         $dbname-karma

# persistant "seen" db
seen             $dbname-seen

# do we have an ignore database? uncomment this if not.
ignore           $dbname-ignore

# should we ALWAYS close and reopen dbm on update?
# some systems don't do commitment until quit.
#
#   0 => never force sync
#   1 => force sync on every update
#   N => force sync every Nth update

commitDBM        5

# Explicitly set the database module.  The default is AnyDBM_File.  If
# you want to use any shared database files (via sharedDBMs) you have to
# set this to DB_File.

#DBMModule	DB_File

# Specify an extension which should be added to all database names.  By
# default this is empty.

#DBMExt		.db

# Specify which databases will be shared among multiple infobots on the
# same machine, and so require locking.  By default none are shared.  If
# you use this at all you have to set DBMModule to DB_File.  This can be
# a list of database names, or /all (which means every database), or
# /all-but-ignore (which means every database except the ignore list).
#
# As of this writing, the databases are:
#
#    is		main database, for singular factoids
#    are	main database, for plural factoids
#    ignore	ignored nicks and user/host patterns
#    plusplus	karma
#    seen	last seen info by each nick

#sharedDBMs is are plusplus
#sharedDBMs /all
#sharedDBMs /all-but-ignore

# X is Y
# max length of X (the key, 
#                  the 'left hand side' (LHS) of an assignment, 
#                  or the first argument)

maxKeySize       50


# max length of Y (value or data, the 'right hand side', or 2nd argument)
maxDataSize      400

# REQUIRE, OPTIONAL, REJECT for different behaviour with URLs
# REQUIRE  means it will need to be a url type (e.g. file:, http:)
# OPTIONAL will take anything
# REJECT   will not accept any urls.  this makes it easy to
#          run 2 with different nicks and styles.

acceptUrl        OPTIONAL

# IRC-related params
ircuser          $ident
realname         $ident
server           irc.infobot.org
port             6667
allowed_channels #infobot #$ident #test

# channels to join
# use #channel,key (thanks to tile++) for keyed channels

join_channels    #infobot #$ident

# server password, if needed
# server_pass    myserverpassword

# vhost support... if you have a vhost, you can use this, 
#                                otherwise it won't work.
#                                inm++, elph++ for this :)
# vhost_name     f00.bar.org

# nickServ_pass foo
# chanServ_pass bar

# addressing is when you name the bot.  if this is REQUIRE,
# the bot should only speak when spoken to.  BUT it may listen.
# anything else will mean it can barge in when it thinks it 
# knows something.
# "shutup" determines whether you can switch modes on the
# fly with the bot.  if you use REQUIRE for addressing, you
# probably want to comment out the shutup line.

addressing       OPTIONAL
# shutup           TRUE

# ansi screen control is available from 0.32 onwards
# value of 1 means to use ANSI, 0 means generic bold
ansi_control     1

# things we may or may not want to allow. 1 = allow, 0 otherwise.
# do you want to be a desktop calc?
perlMath         1
fortranMath      0

# do you want to allow DNS lookup/Internic/Traceroute?
allowDNS         1
allowTraceroute  1
allowInternic    1

# ord/chr etc
allowConv        1

# tell so-and-so about such-and-such
allowTelling     1

# let any old joe update stuff. if this is 0, you'll have to
# either change some code, do everything with e.g. update_db,
# or do something else arcane to get factoids in.
allowUpdate      1

# How much verbage to display on the console
VERBOSITY        1

# the magic hack word to unignore everyone
unignoreWord     unignore-everyone

# where configuration and help files and such live, the default is the
# files subdir of the main directory
confdir          conf

# my help file.  this will get confdir prepended
# you may want to change this to $ident.help

helpfile         infobot.help

srcdir           src
extradir         extras

# within how long of getting the same reply should
# we not respond (irc mode only).  in seconds.

repeatIgnoreInterval 8

# in what contexts do we let people make the bot leave a
# channel (this is an or'd list; public private)

allowLeave       public

# our user list default file (in miscdir)
# you may want to change this to $ident.users

userList         infobot.users

# channel list, specifies options which differ from the defaults, by
# channel.

channelList		infobot.channels

# default quit message
quitMsg          regrouping; bbiab


# how long does something have to be before we'll just volunteer
# the answer without a question mark, question, or being addressed
minVolunteerLength 8

# other bots to ask for help

# friendlyBots url purl script mrapi

# sane defines that ALWAYS overwrite existing values at startup
# this is a prefix for the files (sane-is.txt, sane-are.txt)

sanePrefix sane

# allow weather and METAR lookups, respectively. These should
# actually be turned into a user modes.  mendel++. Require
# LWP and metar requires Geo::METAR.
weather true
metar   true

# babelfish translator.  jdf++. requires LWP, not included.
babel   true

# slashdot headlines. requires LWP, not included. get it from CPAN.
slash   true

# insult and excuse servers
insult  true
excuse true

# google search.. simon++ . expanded to www search using several
# engines since it was so easy once you have WWW::Search.
# use "update" if you want it to update the db, or comment
# out if you don't want it. requires WWW::Search, not included.
# use "forceupdate" to force a db update on every google search.
wwwsearch  update

# general headline-getter. uses RDF. (LotR++)
rss true

# purldoc perl documentation lookup DMasque++, HJ++
purldoc true
purldoc_trigger purldoc
purldoc_max_public 3

# speller. requires the ispell program.
ispell true

#zippy quotes (infobot, yow  or infobot, be zippy)
zippy true

# the magic 8ball (divine)
magic8_answers $miscdir/magic8.txt

# exchange rates (exchange 233 DEM to USD)
exchange true

# stock quotes 
stockquotes true