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free shell accounts

Started by Ra Jul 13, 2004 at 7:34 PM 3 replies 500+ views
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Ra
Ra
WHY are free shell accounts so hard to get?! I've been looking for a simple free shell account that'll allow me to run a Perl IRC bot. A lot of them don't allow bots, but some do. All the shell accounts I've looked at that allow them make you jump through hoops to get signed up. "Register with two of our sponsors with correct information and forward the response e-mails to us." "Please give your first name, last name, full address, phone number, two major credit card numbers, height, weight, and nose length." One of them expects you to join an IRC channel (which requires signing up with their NickServ which requires a CONFIRMATION EMAIL...) and then being invited by someone. However, you cannot idle in the channel and you can't ask for an invite or anything even close to an invite, and if you auto-rejoin you're auto-banned. So if anyone knows of some open, non-intrusive, no-hassle free shell accounts that'll let me run my Perl IRC bot then PLEASE let me know. Minimum requirements: IRC access, Perl, 1 background process It's also be nice if it supported a BNC and telnet access, but those aren't absolutely necessary. [Edited by - Azrioc on July 13, 2004 8:21:46 PM]
Ra
Drevay
Drevay
HBX is offering free shell accounts. Only downside is that you don't have any IRC access, but, you have access to Perl, Python, GCC, hell anything the machine has on it. Plus, you're encouraged to learn how to crack exploits in websites (they have one set up just for this purpose).

Good service. The server runs FreeBSD.
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Run_The_Shadows
Run_The_Shadows
Some services don't want you running IRC bots on them? Especially if the bot is going to be active 24hours a day.
monkey_32606
monkey_32606
Just thought I'd mention that the HBX website says the shell server is down, due to lightning strike. But if they ever come back up I think I'll try them.
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Code_Dark
Code_Dark
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Original post by Azrioc
Minimum requirements: IRC access, Perl, 1 background process


Yep. That narrows it down quite a bit. I was gonna mention HBX, but it looks as though you can't do IRC with them. Sorry :(


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