superbender the IRC notification daemon

superbender has taken over from our faithful bot bender. It monitors RSS feeds and posts them in our chat.

superbender lives on jojobe, runs as the user bender and fully resides in /home/bender.

It runs ​sopel and the ​sopel-rss module.

It runs via systemd (/etc/systemd/system/bender.service) and can be restarted with:

systemctl restart superbender

superbender's config files are in jojobe:/home/bender/.sopel.

It was setup by running the following commands from #mayfirst after it connected:

.rss add #mayfirst tickets https://support.mayfirst..org/timeline?ticket=on&ticket_details=on&sensitive_activity=on&max=10&daysback=1&format=rss
.rss formats tickets f=fl+fatl
.rss add #mayfirst nagios http://monitor.local.mayfirst.org/rss/all.xml
.rss add #mayfirst service https://status.mayfirst.org/rss.xml
.rss add #mayfirst wiki https://support.mayfirst.org/timeline?max=10&wiki=on&daysback=1&format=rss

You can control it if you add your irc nick to jojobe:/home/bender/.sopel/default.cfg (the owner line) and then restart:

systemctl restart superbender

Upgrading

Now, with jojobe running jessie, sopel was installed by hand and dropped into /home/bender/. A symlink was created from "sopel" to the actual directory which has the version number as part of the name. To upgrade, download a new version and re-create the symlink.

When jojobe is upgraded to stretch, we can pull in the debian package, move the configuration directory from /home/bender/.sopel to /etc/ and probably even purge the user bender.

Maintenance

If superbender does not seem to be reporting on a feed, you can ask superbender to check all feeds immediately (default is every 60 seconds):

.rss update

Or, immediately print all feed items for a given fee with:

.rss get <feedname>

If desperate, you can remove and re-add feeds via irc:

.rss del <feedname>

And then re-add using the command above.