From b511ebc2771410931f47d333c63204fde727f575 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dms <dms@c11ca15a-4712-0410-83d8-924469b57eb5>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:26:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] print possible fix as error message.

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/infobot/code/trunk/blootbot@854 c11ca15a-4712-0410-83d8-924469b57eb5
---
 src/IRC/Irc.pl | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/IRC/Irc.pl b/src/IRC/Irc.pl
index 84abc4b..82816e0 100644
--- a/src/IRC/Irc.pl
+++ b/src/IRC/Irc.pl
@@ -102,7 +102,10 @@ sub irc {
     $conn = $irc->newconn(%args);
 
     if (!defined $conn) {
-	&ERROR("internal: perl IRC connection object does not exist.");
+	&ERROR("IRC: connection failed.");
+	&ERROR("Please check /etc/hosts to see if you have a localhost line like:");
+	&ERROR("127.0.0.1   localhost    localhost");
+	&ERROR("If this is still a problem, please contact the maintainer.");
 	return 1;
     }
 
-- 
2.39.2