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Yes, we all hate these things, they kill our processes and are generally just irritating.

So what are we doing about it? Well we have implented a system that will automatically start up programs you specify when the server is rebooted so if you want your psybnc or eggdrop coming back up instantly without running some silly crontab then this is for you.

Ok the first thing to do is create the file .reboot in your home directory

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nano ~/.reboot

Now we have two options, so I'll give examples of how each works.

Command mode:

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# This is an example of a command mode reboot file
/home/tim/eggdrop/eggdrop -m bot.conf
/home/tim/psybnc/psybnc
echo "started my stuff automatically" > /home/tim/reboot_log


Script mode:

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#!/usr/local/bin/php
# ok this is an example of script mode, which is chosen by
# having #! as the first 2 characters in the file.
<?
$home = "/home/tim";

$psybnc = "psybnc/psybnc";
$eggy = "eggdrop/eggdrop -m bot.conf";
$log_file = "reboot_log";
$log_text = "started my stuff automatically";

// start the psybnc
exec($home . '/' . $psybnc);
// start the eggy
exec($home . '/' . $eggy);
// write the log
$file = fopen($home . '/' . $log_file);
$write = fwrite($file, $log_text);
fclose($file);

?>


Then save the file and exit (CTRL + X in nano).

Any questions on using this, just post them here

Sweet code/script. I'll try using these when we get back online.

nice scripts, but i think that is possible to create a php
script for web-admin without ssh

probably need to make permissions executable too

As long as root can read the file theres no problem...which reminds me I really need to find another copy of this script. This is probably one of the better things I've written

tim have you found a copy?

this script still work?

if yes.. i write in .reboot file

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# This is an example of a command mode reboot file
/home/username/eggdrop/eggdrop -m bot.conf
/home/username/psybnc/psybnc
echo "started my stuff automatically" > /home/tim/reboot_log

is it ok? what is this?

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echo "started my stuff automatically" > /home/tim/reboot_log

thank

atox wrote:
is it ok? what is this?

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echo "started my stuff automatically" > /home/tim/reboot_log

thank

I think he writes the text "started my stuff automaticlly" to the text file reboot_log every time the script has been run. (every reboot)

Hi,
I'm not quite sure what im doing, but would the following work for a sBNC reboot script.

/home/chris4/sbnc/sbnc
echo "started my stuff automatically" > /home/chris4/reboot_log

That is written in the .reboot file I created as above.
Thank you

hi

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echo "started my stuff automatically" > /home/chris4/reboot_log

this line simply prints the line "started my stuff automatically" to the file "/home/chris4/reboot_log", for example to make you sure that the reboot script works ..

possibly the reboot script looks this file every time it runs, and if this line is not found, your programs stay offline ))
but i think its incredible.. ))

hi

i save this to filenamed .reboot in my home dir on the shell but i think it doesnt work after the reboot of the system my bot still didnt connect,
what i do is manually restart it on the shell. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my installation of .reboot file?

here is the code....

# This is an example of a command mode reboot file
/home/bot1/cow^bot/eggdrop -m cow^bot.conf
echo "started my stuff automatically" > /home/bot1/reboot_log

thanks.