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INSTALLATION

• Download and unzip the contents to a server / directory of your choice.
• Open rbm_settings.cf and change the first few options for your server setup.
• Unzip the contents of /rbm_icons.zip to your TS3 virtual server. '.../teamspeak/files/virtualserver_1/internal/icons' for example. Please go through the settings.cf features and select the corresponding icon pack or leave the entire icon pack off your virtual server if disabling a particular feature.

• Make sure rbmod.pl is set to 744 (executable) and run #: ./rbmod.pl

  OTHER NOTES

• Remember to add RbMod's IP to the TS3 query_ip_whitelist.txt

• Disable logging of server permissions on your virtual server might reduce any excess HDD activity.

  LICENSE INFORMATION
  This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0, and GNU General Public License 2.0, For more details, see the full text of the licenses at http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0, and http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.

  DISCLAIMER This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but it is provided "as is" and without any express or implied warranties. For more details, see the full text of the licenses at http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0, and http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.

  INTRODUCTION RbMod was originally conceived about 7 years ago for TeamSpeak 2, some in theory and the rest in actual code. This how ever is a completely new project from scratch.

  FEATURE - Ping Meter Independent of the TeamSpeak query interface, this new feature will attempt to either use the built in module 'Net::Ping' to ping a client IP directly, if an ECHO or TCP ping fails, it will fall back to a trace-route to obtain either the clients ping directly, or from the first hop or two in front of the specific client.

  FEATURE - Sticky Channel for administrators to drag & drop client punishments. Place anyone that's been spamming your server directly into a selected channel ID of your choice - The server group 'Rb Sticky' will automatically attach to the offending client - until dragged back out of the specific channel you've chosen.

  FEATURE - Client description language filter. Monitor all client descriptions for swear words from the rbm_badwords.cf

  FEATURE - On-join client description / tagline global message. Append either a 200 character !tag to display globally to all your buddies upon joining the server. !deltag to remove Rb custom saved tagline. If the client doesn't choose a !tag, the description field from TS3 will be used instead (max of 80 characters). Admins can set client on-join tags easily with the later.

  FEATURE - On-part random color coded goodbye messages. RbMod now uses another *.cf file (/rbm_extras/rbm_goodbye.cf) to globally text message a random color coated departure message for every 3rd-4th disconnection a client makes (independent of other disconnects). This feature uses over 1100 HEX color codes to generate 'rainbow' type message effects.

  FEATURE - Geographical Database Dependant upon 'Geo::IP::PurePerl' CPan module & rbm_settings.cf On/Off toggle, RbMod can now pickup a clients City/Region (database permitting) and further utilize these results in other features such as the on-join channel creation feature or weather statistics to name a few. This feature is disabled by default until both the Geo::IP::PurePerl is installed ('cpan' .. 'install Geo::IP::PurePerl') and the free 'GeoLite City' BINARY database that this module utilizes is correctly placed at the root of RbMod. '/GeoLiteCity.dat' 'http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz'

  FEATURE - Weather Conditions With 'Geo::IP::PurePerl' correctly running and enabled under rbm_settings.cf, our second dependency in which to obtain user temperatures comes in the form of 'Weather::Underground'. This module, when installed (cpan> 'install Weather::Underground') will enable certain temperature statistics to appear next to a clients on-join 'status' group for a short period, as well as a global Celsius / Fahrenheit / Conditions global message upon first connections. There's of course the more permanent feature 'Temperatures_On' that utilizes 85 temperature icons (from -33c - +50c), updated on a set interval for all online connections.

  FEATURE - RSS Feeds With the use of 'XML::Parser' module, RbMod can now attach to a URL of your choosing and monitor the contents for changes, globally displaying the results with a interval variable.

  FEATURE - Reconnect Flood Detection Gauge. Written in hopes of reducing client re-connections, either intentional or from simple repetitive timeouts due to poor client connections, this feature will monitor the amount of reconnects under a set period of time, each infraction will escalate to further warn, kick & inevitably a ban. There's about 6 tiers to this 'grey' list the mod uses to watch ones reconnect history.

  FEATURE - Channel Query 'Bots'. Designed intentionally to tap into Screech's 'Now Playing' Music -> Channel Plugin. Setup one or more query bots in specific channel(s) to watch a target channels text history. Each line from the channel chat will immediately go beside a specified client DBID, displaying for example the first 30 characters of a song beside a GUI client connected in the form of a group 'tag' in brackets, as well as changing the targets description to show 0-80 characters of the channel text monitored.

  FEATURE - Traffic Meter One of RbMod's largest attractions has now been rewritten to produce the smoothest possible output for your TS3 server. In the previous RbMod releases, all the dynamic icon updates took place in a group generated per client. Since discovering that this method has it's limitations (most apparent; CPU cycles generated for each icon update), RbMod now uses the 'Client' icon slot instead, which pans out to be much less overhead on the TS3 server processing the image updates. There's also an interval toggle to slow down this particular feature if need be.

  FEATURE - Automatic Ranking Inspired by the gaming community and a few individuals, RbMod now includes 2 icon packs to choose from. Watch client ranks update live online. Subsequent ranks become harder to reach as each clients TOTAL time + scale + time / 3 = Next rank.

  FEATURE - Trace Routes Rewritten to produce a finer output than it's previous predecessor in RbMod v1.0. This version now includes the default option of performing a back to back trace per client. Using either ICMP / SYN in Linux or just finding the highest path possible. Also includes a 4th Icon pack of 41 new hop numbers (Default orange theme).

  FEATURE - Reverse DNS Look-ups Strictly for informative purposes, you can issue private messages to new joins depicting the reverse DNS from their ISP.

  FEATURE - Clone Detection Unlike version 1, this new clone detection uses a completely new icon pack of 7 human figure icons. each lighting up depending on the amount of clones per individual DBID.

  FEATURE - Operating System Detection Automatically detecting Windows / Linux / Mac or iOS clients and visually displaying the appropriate icon. Four slightly reworked OS icons have been added to the mix in RbMod v2.0.

  FEATURE - Auto-Move DBIDs/Groups/CCodes/Regions/Cities On behalf of a few personal requests, RbMod now detects upon joining the server either a clients group, or client DBID which in turn gets placed in a specified channel ID. If those aren't found, the client will be placed into a preexisting 2 digit CCode channel (CA) Canada, for example. Channel creation for Country/Region/City can also be utilized using the Pure-Perl module.

  FEATURE - Auto-Kick Recorders Automatically remove unauthorized recorders from particular Group ID's.

  FEATURE - Auto-Delete Dormant Channels RbMod will cleanup any temp, semi-perm, perm. channel outside it's exemption list, only after laying dormant for a specified amount of time. Be sure to add ALL your channel IDs, before turning this feature ON.

  FEATURE - Auto-Fill Empty CCodes Place an unknown country flag next to clients whom don't show a country, Ethernet icon for internal connections or a country flag from the CCode icon pack with Pure-Perl database enabled.

  FEATURE - Channel Flood Detection
  Rewritten to give the server admin the option of either punishing, kicking or banning an individual for spamming through all the channels. Punishment includes the old temporary channel creation upon infractions, or the ability to use your own channel and move the person back to a default channel once unpunished.

  FEATURE - Channel Language Filter Designed for performance, this new version includes an interval option but probably isn't necessary. as each room will be scanned against the list of 'bad words' only when the name changes, or the channel's created for the first time.

  FEATURE - Nickname Language Filter Like the Channel Language Filter, every client gets reviewed for changes, only once a name change is detected will RbMod scan for bad words against the current update.

  FEATURE - Nickname Protection With seven settings to choose from, you can now protect a group of clients from other groups stealing your protected client names. Choose whether to punish the same group members for using a safe name, or just choose a kick / ban reason.

  FEATURE - Group Protection Select individual client DBID's, and the corresponding group they belong with. If any client outside this list joins an unauthorized group, the group will be revoked immediately and kicked if desired.

  FEATURE - Dynamic Banners / Banner Links Many admins seem to enjoy this feature, RbMod now gives you the ability to choose a list of as many Image URLs as you like. With the capability of changing the banner LINKS on it's own independent time cycle. Change the banner link once every 2 banners or choose which ever variations suite your setup.

  FEATURE - Client Status Display either a 'Live', 'Idle' or 'AFK' icon, based upon desired time requirements of your choice. Country & Temperatures also show for a set interval during a new client connection in a group tag.

  FEATURE - Message Of The Day RbMod now includes a separate configuration file to add or subtract custom RbMod variables to display to new clients or existing. See rbm_motd.cf

  FEATURE - Real-time Black-hole List With this new feature enabled, every client will be checked (via nslookup) against the online RBL at server of your choice. White-list any IP addresses that are known to be friendly, yet flagged.

  FEATURE - AFK-Move Choose which groups to skip over as this feature will move any client found idling over a set amount of time to a chosen channel ID.

  AUTHOR / FEEDBACK Matthew Weyrich - Scor9ioN admin@rbmod.presension.com

  CREDITS Dan22 - Thanks go out to Dan for his personal quotes and other /rbm_extras/* contributions. As well, for beta testing RbMod everyday and engineering new ideas in the development of RbMod.

  J3llB3an - My lady, for putting up with all the late nights - early morning coding for the past few months. She has just as much patience as I... =)

  CURRENT VERSION Version Ƹ.2 (Beta)

  HISTORY See CHANGELOG.