It was there, now it's gone. I have no idea if it is running.

SSH/Telnet into your account, and type ps -x.

That will show a list of your current processes. You will see your SSH/Telnet session listed (Example : bash) and possibly your Bot background process. If you don't see anything that resembles your bot process, then it is not running. If it were, you would see something like 'bot' or 'eggdrop'.. or whatever name/command is used to start your bot.

If you find your bot is listed, and it is not online (IRC), you will need to kill the process. To find the process ID (PID), look at the first column in the ps -x command output. To kill that process dead, type :

ps -x  ####       (Where #### is the PID number)

Only after you are very sure that your Bot has been killed, should you try to relaunch it. Launching multiple processes, even if they don't reach IRC, is forbidden, and causes both the IRC servers problems, and the SATEXAS servers problems.

I launch my bot, I know it is running, but it does not show up on IRC.

Use the information in the previous question to determine if your bot is really launched (ps -x).

If you are sure your bot is indeed launched, but it does not show up online, this is due to your choices in IRC Servers.

SATEXAS load-balances its users, but sometimes all the users like to use the same IRC server, or the same VHOST and it takes up all of your net's allowed connections on the server(s).

First review what servers are listed in your config file, and make sure you have enough different choices and servers listed. SATEXAS keeps a list to help you here.

If that does not help, try using a vhost.

To troubleshoot the problem, and to test IRC servers, you can IRC from the Unix command problem (just like your bot does), but typing the following :

irc   nick   servername