Shbot is an IRC bot that runs shell code. It is a fork of evalbot (http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/evalbot/).

If you just want shbot up and running, go grab a prebuilt initramfs and kernel from releases.

If you want to make changes, you can either mess with the sources and build everything from scratch, or modify the prebuilt initramfs archive by doing the following:

mkdir shbot-root
cd shbot-root

# using pax, the standard archiver
gzip -cd ../shbot-0.1.cpio.gz | pax -rv
# or using GNU cpio
gzip -cd ../shbot-0.1.cpio.gz | cpio -iv

# make the changes you want in this directory tree, then put it back into a gziped cpio archive:

# using pax
pax -x sv4cpio -wv . | gzip -9 > ../shbot-custom.cpio.gz
# or using GNU cpio and find
find . -print0 | cpio -o0v -H newc | gzip -9 > ../shbot-custom.cpio.gz

Building from scratch

To build, you'll need

• Typical build tools: A C compiler, make, yacc, lex patch
• Header files of libraries needed to build bash, awk, mksh etc.

For Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt-get install build-essential ncompress
sudo apt-get build-dep bash gawk mawk ksh mksh

For Fedora/CentOS

sudo yum install patch ncompress flex byacc bison
sudo yum-builddep bash gawk mawk ksh mksh

Should get most, if not all, build requirements down.

Run

make

kernel-howto.md explains how to configure and build the kernel