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.. _supybot-botchk:
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##############
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supybot-botchk
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##############
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supybot-botchk is a script that comes with Supybot which restarts the bot
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if it quits or system reboots or anything that causes the bot to quit. It's
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placed to crontab so cron will run it with scheduled intervals.
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How to use it?
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==============
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Configuring the bot
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-------------------
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Start by telling your bot to write a pidfile somewhere where it can write
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and restart the bot. For example::
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config supybot.pidfile /home/<username>/<bot>/<bot>.pid
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where <username> is replaced with the system username and <bot> is replaced
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with the name of the bot.
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crontab
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-------
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After the pidfile is configured, you can modify crontab. First you should
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copy the output of::
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printf 'PATH=%s\n' "$PATH"
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and open crontab with ``EDITOR=nano crontab -e`` and paste the output of
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previous command to the first lines which don't have comments. This should
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be on top. You will probably also want to configure locale and timezone
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which happens by adding the following lines::
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# Replace en_US.utf8 with your own locale! You should see list of
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# available locales with `locale` command, just use something which
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# ends with "utf8".
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LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
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# Specifying timezone is optional, but you probably want to do it if
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# your system is on different timezone. Replace ``UTC`` with
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# ``Area/Region`` as it appears in IANA Time Zone Database if you don't
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# want to use UTC.
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TZ=UTC
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NOTE: Lines starting with # are comments and don't need to be written.
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Now you finally add the bot. If you have multiple bots, simply add separate
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lines for them all::
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*/5 * * * * supybot-botchk --botdir=/home/<username>/<bot>/ --pidfile=/home/<username>/<bot>/<bot>.pid --conffile=/home/<username>/<bot>/<bot>.conf
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If you needed to use diferent environment for other bot, you could specify
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that on the same line. For example, my other bot uses en_US.utf8 as locale
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and UTC as timezone::
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*/5 * * * * LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 TZ=UTC supybot-botchk --botdir=/home/<username>/<bot2>/ --pidfile=/home/<username>/<bot2>/<bot2>.pid --conffile=/home/<username>/<bot2>/<bot2>.conf
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Note that environment doesn't need to be specified on supybot-botchk line
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unless it differs from globally specified environment which we added as the
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first thing to crontab.
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Now you can save the crontab by pressing ``CTRL + O`` answering ``y`` and
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then quitting nano with ``CTRL + X``.
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If you are wondering what ``*/5 * * * *`` means, it simply means "run this
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every five minutes every day". The 5 can be replaced with any other number
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and there are also ``@hourly`` etc. which can be used on it's place, but
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you most likely won't want to wait hour or more if your bot crashes.
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