• MRC...Repeat qustion?

    From PalKat@21:4/137 to All on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 20:04:12
    Sorry if this has been addressed already but just wondering...With MRC is
    there a way to see who is in the chat with out entering it?!

    I am sure there is but have not dug into that as I have not had any free time to and just thought of this driving down the road today. So figured I would just ask.

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@21:1/158 to PalKat on Friday, August 02, 2019 03:30:36
    On 23 Jul 2019, PalKat said the following...

    Sorry if this has been addressed already but just wondering...With MRC is there a way to see who is in the chat with out entering it?!

    I am sure there is but have not dug into that as I have not had any free time to and just thought of this driving down the road today. So figured
    I would just ask.

    Not sure if it's been answered yet already, I think StackFault was planning
    on implementing some sort of JSON based API that you can query the server to get back that kind of information. Currently there isn't any implemented way
    to do this, at least to my knowledge.

    The only thing you can do to interrogate the server and get back something is to find out how many bbses are connected, how many rooms there are
    currently, how many users are online, how much activity there is on the
    server.

    To do this, you can use netcat from the linux terminal like this;

    $ echo "~" ! nc mrc.thebottomlessabyss.net 5000

    Use a pip character instead of the exclamation. I don't think I can put a
    pipe char in here or it'll go bananas.

    The output will be something like;

    60 1 2 1

    The first number is the connected bbses
    The second number is the number of rooms active
    The third number is the number of users total on the server
    The fourth number is a representation of activity;
    * 0 = NUL or no activity
    * 1 = LOW activity
    * 2 = MED activity
    * 3 = HI activity

    You can use this to put some stats on a webpage nicely, or as some realtime information on your bbs like I have on my website https://www.meatlotion.com and in my bbs main, message and file menus.

    Hope this helps.

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@21:1/158 to PalKat on Friday, August 02, 2019 03:32:47
    $ echo "~" ! nc mrc.thebottomlessabyss.net 5000

    the hostname is mrc.bottomlessabyss.net and not mrc.thebottomlessabyss.net

    no "the" in the domain. Sorry for any confusion caused.

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  • From PalKat@21:4/137 to MeaTLoTioN on Sunday, August 04, 2019 13:34:30
    Thanks MeaTLoTioN!

    That gives me something to work with and ideas...how ever mine runs on
    windows BUT I do have netcat for window, so I will try to play with that.

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  • From PalKat@21:4/137 to MeaTLoTioN on Sunday, August 04, 2019 13:35:14
    the hostname is mrc.bottomlessabyss.net and not
    mrc.thebottomlessabyss.net

    no "the" in the domain. Sorry for any confusion caused.

    Got it! Thanks again!

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