I've followed the instructions below to the best of my abilities. When I reboot the Ubuntu (11.10) server, I get the login prompt and nothing else. The bot is not running in the background. When I input my login info and password, I get the general $ prompt. And if I put "screen -r" I get the message that "There is no screen to be resumed."

Below, in the instructions, it says to make two script files. What should the script file extensions be? .sh? .php? Or something else? Following the directions I did not put an extension, maybe I was supposed to?

Wolf, your advice contains alot of inorrect stuff (prob old )
the main file is StartBot.php
it supports multi bots useing php StartBot.php botname

anyway this is how i have done it

ok this is the system i use

My script works well with multi bots useing screens

for starter i have a script file in the root directory of the bot folder
/home/Bots/all/ being the folder your bot is in

start_botname

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cd /home/Bots/all/; su -c "php StartBot.php leetboss" Bots
Where Bots is the user that owns/runs the bots

then in etc/init.d/ i got the file names Botname

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#!/bin/sh

case "$1" in
'start')
screen -dmS botname -s /home/Bots/all/start_botname
;;
'stop')
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
;;
esac
exit 0

and ive done that for each bot i run.

I have also tried these instructions with no luck either:
http://bebot.link/bebot-0-4-support/bebot-on-linux-vserver-absolute-beginner-here/

Any help with getting my bot to start when Linux boots up would be greatly appreciated.

-Sek

PS. FYI - this is my own Linux box in my house.

Thx Shelly! I'll give this a try.
-Sek

Thank you very much for the help. I am learning as I go and I am finding Linux to be quite interesting.

I have another question. Will the bot start on reboot even if I have to login? OR do I need to make some changes to my system that allow for it to log me in automatically?

-Sek

I followed the instructions above and the bot is not starting. Is there something wrong with my code? Here is what I have...

Here is my start_bot1 file:
#!/bin/bash

#
##
### Check for AOC Bots and restart if necessary
##
#
# This script looks to see if your bot is actually running and does nothing if it is
# already running.
# If it is not running, it will email you the previous log, then compress it to concerve space.
#
# You will need to change "bot1" to the name of your bot.
#
# The BOT* items you will need to configure for your bot.
BOTHOME="/home/kevin-0/Bots/bebot"
BOTNAME="Rosy"
BOTLOGS="/home/bot"
BOTLOG_Archive=${BOTLOGS}/logs

mdate=`date +%b-%d-%Y`;
hdate=`date +%b-%d-%Y_%H%M_hrs`;

z=`ps -ef |grep ${BOTNAME} |grep -v grep`;
if [[ $z == "" ]]
then {
# comment this next line out if you don't want the previous log emailed to you.
mailx -s "Starting ${BOTNAME} bot " [email protected] <${BOTLOGS}/${BOTNAME}.log ;
if [ -e "${BOTLOGS}/${BOTNAME}.log-${mdate}.gz" ]
then {
mv ${BOTLOGS}/${BOTNAME}.log ${BOTLOG_Archive}/${BOTNAME}.log-${mdate};
/bin/gzip ${BOTLOG_Archive}/${BOTNAME}.log-${mdate};
}
else {
mv ${BOTLOGS}/${BOTNAME}.log ${BOTLOG_Archive}/${BOTNAME}.log-${hdate};
/bin/gzip ${BOTLOG_Archive}/${BOTNAME}.log-${hdate};
};
fi
cd ${BOTHOME}; /usr/bin/php -f ${BOTHOME}/StartBot.php ${BOTNAME} 2>&1 > ${BOTLOGS}/${BOTNAME}.log &
}
fi

#EOF
Here is my StartBots file:
#!/bin/bash

/home/kevin-0/Bots/bebot/start_bot1
sleep 5

## EOF
And here is what I put into my crontab file. The original # text is there, and I added:
#Bot's Cron
# Check for running bots and start them if needed.
*/10 * * * * /home/kevin-0/Bots/bebot/StartBots 2&>1 >/dev/null
@reboot /home/kevin-0/Bots/bebot/StartBots 2&>1 >/dev/null
I ran chmod 750 on the two files too.

I'm not sure what I am missing?
-Sek

Did you make sure to append cronlines to crontab?

"crontab -l" will list currently added stuff to crontab

"crontab _CRONFILE_" will add lines from _CRONFILE_ into crontab. This will overrun stuff that allready is in crontab if you have, so make sure you dont have any lines from before. If you do add them to _CRONFILE_ before doing "crontab _CRONFILE_"

2ndly, +x on the two files should be good.
You can also try to alter your cron with adding /bin/bash before file

Still not working and starting to drive me nuts. 

I did all of the above suggestions except add /bin/bash before the file. I'm not sure where you want me to put the /bin/bash. It is in the crontab already.

I only have one user on the system (kevin-0 seen above). I never added any users since this machine is only for Bebot. My bot is already running under kevin-0 if I do it manually. Could this have something to do with it?

Should the StartBots and start_bot1 files be in the same directory as Bebot?

Thanks again for your help.

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crontabl -l and post result here.

Here is what I get (/bin/bash was not there, I put it in, and it still doesn't work):
#Bot's Cron
# Check for running bots and start them if needed.
*/10 * * * * /bin/bash /home/kevin-0/Bots/StartBots 2&>1 >/dev/null
@reboot /bin/bash /home/kevin-0/Bots/StartBots 2&>1 >/dev/null


If you type

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/bin/bash /home/kevin-0/Bots/bebot/StartBots what happen?

"Permission denied" was the response.
 
I think we just found the problem. I have done chmod 750 on both files. What else do I need to do to allow permissions?

Alright, I did that. Now I get this message:
: No such file or directorys: line 2: /home/kevin-0/Bots/start_bot1

I have checked and double checked. The start_bot1 file is there. Any ideas? I don't understand it.

Thank you again for your help and to everyone before you. I have been researching your suggestions along the way and learning quite a bit.
-Sek

I found bash in /bin/bash and three other results also showed. When I first used the "find" command, I received many permission denied messages. So I used "sudo" to get the 4 results.