Execution ends immediately

[Luni-4]

First of all, thanks for this tool! :smile:

Unfortunately, when I try to run this tool locally, it ends immediately with exit code 0.

I'm using this script to run it:

#!/bin/bash

export ICKA_EMAIL=my_email
export ICKA_PASSWORD=my_password
./icka

How can I run it indefinitely? Thanks in advance for your help!

[osm]

Hi,

That is the intended behaviour.

You should add it to cron and execute it once every hour, or if you prefer to use a shell script you can use something like this:

#!/bin/sh

export ICKA_EMAIL=my_email
export ICKA_PASSWORD=my_password

while [ 1 ]; do
      ./icka
      sleep 60m
done

[Luni-4]

I see, thanks for the info!

I was thinking to run that on heroku, now I need to discover how to do that with a cron job. I suppose I will use your script with a worker job though

Could you please add the example above, and an heroku example if it is possible, to the README?

[osm]

I see.

I don't really use heroku, but I've added a new command line flag that should be usable for you, fetch the latest source and use the -forever flag.

If you do, the program will keep running and execute once every hour.

[Luni-4]

Wow, this is great! Thanks a lot! :smile:

Can I use that that option with the environment variables too? Because I can't see that in the environment variable example in the README. I suppose I can, but just to be sure

[tech234a]

I have a repo based on this script with easy, step-by-step setup instructions. It can be deployed to Heroku completely from a web browser without editing code, and it also uses far fewer Heroku account hours than running it forever.

https://github.com/tech234a/irccloud

For those of you who used this repo back when it was based on vijaiaeroastro's script: the easiest way to update is to delete your existing Heroku app, use the deploy button in the README to create a new app with the same name as your previous one, and make sure your existing cron-job.org job is enabled.