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Explain how to set up WelcomeBot to run indefinitely #20

Open brittag opened 10 years ago

brittag commented 10 years ago

I'd like to run WelcomeBot in a channel I moderate, but I haven't run an IRC bot before, and I'm not sure how to set up a bot to run indefinitely/permanently. I'd like to see a bit of explanation for recommended ways to do this.

For example, my friend suggested that I could run it inside a screen session on the tiny server that I use for running irssi inside screen; I haven't tried setting this up yet though.

shaunagm commented 10 years ago

We've got a server for a bunch of openhatch stuff. I run WelcomeBot from there, using nohup to keep it from terminating when I log out.

Thanks for the issue! I'll think about how to add this to the documentation in a way that's general enough and specific enough to be useful. :)

shaunagm commented 10 years ago

I added a few lines to the README (one of the changes made here: https://github.com/shaunagm/WelcomeBot/commit/cb2122ed3a5c7cad923ebd8015dbdc478de099eb) -- do you think that's sufficient, @brittag?

shaunagm commented 9 years ago

To anyone testing this issue: follow the instructions here and let me know if you understand them, or if they need more clarification/don't work on your machine. You don't need to log into a separate server, you can test using your own machine and just see if you can close the terminal without stopping the program.