cping is a pretty simple little tool that will send back a randomized notice when a ping comes in. It also fakes the ping time to a random interval, just because.

Pings are amusing or annoying, either way have fun with people that ping you. This module sets up a store of ping response messages to send back to anyone that pings you. For right now, the ping response they get back will be something random from this (for non- cryptographic values of 'random').

• Irssi (duh)
• DBD::SQLite
  • A database is used to store the pings and also to record the history of pings that occurred.

• Copy cping.pl to ~/.irssi/scripts/
• In irssi: %/script load cping% or %/run cping%
• Optional to have it start with irssi: cd ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun ; ln -s ../cping .

• cping
  • Lists the available commands in cping
• cping help
  • this help
• cping stats
  • Show some simple stats (future plan)
• cping history
  • shows the history of ping responses sent
• cping history
  • shows the history for just that nick
• cping add
  • adds a ping response to the dataset, shows the messageID
• cping list
  • show the list of current ping messages, including the messageID
• cping search
  • Using the SQLite "like" syntax. MATCH STRING is wrapped in %%s so it will match any portion of a message or word.
• cping disable
  • disables a messageID from the rotation, this seems a better idea than deleting messages as the message may have been sent out in the past and thus be referenced using /cpan history
• cping enable
  • enables a messageID to be used as part of the random sample
• cping init
  • Initializes some basic stuff, like the db_handle. If you change the cping_db_file setting, you should re-run this

The following settings (with defaults) are used by cping:

• cping_db_file = ~/.irssi/pings.db
  • Where the database that cping uses exists, including the database filename itself.
• cping_debug = OFF
  • Should debugging information be shown (just leave this alone).
• cping_faketime = ON
  • If this is set to 'ON' cping will lie about the ping time, by as much as an hour.