Net::IRC Wrong file descriptor

olly has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks, I am facing some problems while trying to use the Net::IRC module. I have the folowing code

#!/usr/bin/perl
#

use Net::IRC;

#
#  Create the IRC and Connection objects
#

my $irc = new Net::IRC;

print "Creating connection to IRC server...\n";

my $conn = $irc->newconn(Server   => 'amsterdam.nl.eu.undernet.org',
                         Port     => 6667,
                         Nick     => 'PerlBot',
                         Ircname  => 'I Only Answer to NeoFuture.',
                         Username => 'Neo')
    or die "Can't connect to IRC server $!.\n";


$irc->start;
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When I run this code it fails with can't connect to amstedam wrong file descriptor. What does that mean and how do I solve it? I intalled Net::IRC from CPAN shell and after that I also did a manual installation and bot don't complain.

Thanks Olly

Imagination is more important then knowledge -Einstein-

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Re: Net::IRC Wrong file descriptor by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jul 31, 2001 at 15:57 UTC
There is a discusion of exactly this problem at Net::IRC does not connect. There is also a solution :-) I found this by typing Net::IRC in the search box - there are also a number of other threads on this if you run the search. Hope this helps cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply]
Re: Net::IRC Wrong file descriptor by olly (Scribe) on Jul 31, 2001 at 15:59 UTC
Stupid not to search :( btw here is the error message Creating connection to IRC server... Can't connect to amsterdam.nl.eu.undernet.org:6667! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/IRC.pm line 192 Can't connect to IRC server. Bad file descriptor Imagination is more important then knowledge -Einstein-	[reply]
Re: Re: Net::IRC Wrong file descriptor by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jul 31, 2001 at 16:58 UTC
Yup, it's exactly the same problem described. Frustrating that the sample code for a module does not work. Hopefully you will solve the problem using the patch described. I'm sure the module's author would appreciate the patch to save others from having the problem in the future. With 100K plus of nodes here searching often yeilds quick results. Anyway I like the easy questions - they are the only ones I can answer ;-) cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply]