I found the cause of this. You are required to have an MOTD on your server or it never hits the on_connect subroutine

-- Thomas Vachon Principal Operations Architect *session M*

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net>wrote:

On Monday, 22 August 2011 22:36:27 Thomas Vachon wrote:

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Hi all,

I am trying to get the ircbot provided by the hobbit-plugins package (version 20100527).

This does not originate with this project. Please contact your software distributor, or ensure that the extension is provided somewhere where this project can see the extension, and possibly address problems in it.

Regards, Buchan