Logmsgbot

logmsgbot is udprec piped into ircecho. It outputs !log messages to IRC. These and other (manual) !log messages are read by morebots and saved to Server admin log.

Set up

There's a shell script in /home/wikipedia/bin/logmsgbot that looks like this:

/usr/local/bin/udprec 53412 0.0.0.0 | \
	/home/wikipedia/bin/ircecho '#wikimedia-operations' logmsgbot irc.freenode.net

It is running under a root screen on fenari, as nobody:

screen
su -s/bin/bash nobody
/home/wikipedia/bin/logmsgbot

See also

• Wikimedia binaries: Most of these scripts run logmsgbot.