logger - RDF IRC Chat Logger
logger [options...] PASSWORD CHANNEL-URI CHANNEL-TITLE LOG-DIR LOG-URI > logger.log
An irc logger bot that automatically generated logs for various IRC chat channels. Call it with parameters above where
PASSWORD Administrator password for some commands CHANNEL-URI IRC channel URI like irc://host[:port]/channel CHANNEL-TITLE A title to use in welcome messages LOG-DIR Root directory to start writing logs LOG-URI URI of where the logs appear on the web
and options are:
-html Write an XHTML log as well as text and RDF.
-log LOGFILE Write logs to LOGFILE rather than the default
of CHANNEL/YYYY-MM-DD (".txt", ".html", and ".rdf"
will be appended)
-nick NICK Use IRC nick NICK
-noaction Do not log /me messages -noofftopic Do not ignore lines starting with [off] -userhosts Record user@host from /join messages
The logger bot listens to the chat channel and records it in public logs which are written live in three formats - RDF, plain text and HTML (usually created from RDF via XSLT by some other program).
Logger accepts a few commands that can be done publically with logger, COMMAND or privately with /msg logger COMMAND
The full list of commands can be found by the help command /msg logger help
Logger can be told to stop listening/recording to the chat, if for some reason this is required. For individual messages this can be done by putting the phrase '[off]' at the start of a line of text and for longer conversations, tell logger to stop listening with: logger, off and recording again with logger, on (there are other synonyms). The on/off messages are logged, as well as all public commands to logger. This feature can be turned off with -noofftopic
The current log URI, and the position in it can be queried at any time with logger, pointer or using one of the other aliases: here, bookmark, where am i?
The current log URI can be recorded in a particular chump bot item using: logger, chump D to record the discussion below item D.
Logger has some administrative commands that can be found from: /msg logger adminhelp
These require the startup password in order to use, for example this will make logger terminate: /msg logger password PASSWORD quit
logger will attempt to reconnect when disconnected but doesn't yet handle all network problems very gracefully.
GNU GPL version 2 or later - see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
with lots of changes from Ralph Swick - http://www.w3.org/People/all#swick, W3C/MIT