Setup a script for automatic crontab / service configuration

[DeastinY]

Via crontab the bot should tweet the coffee of the day at a fixed time every day. In addition to that the bot should always be running to monitor it's timeline and respond to mentions.

[QzSG]

This is not ideal but assuming the main.py script contains a while (True) loop to run forever maybe with time.sleep(15*60) sleep for roughly fifteen minute intervals. You could use upstart assuming u have a ubuntu 12.04 or above server with just a conf file at /etc/init/something.conf

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

respawn
setuid <user to run as>
setgid <group to run as>
exec python /path/to/your/main.py

[danielkoster]

Or as a systemd service. Note that this also requires the main script to run some form of while True loop with time.sleep(15*60).

[Unit]
Description=CoffeeRecommendationBot service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=python /path/to/your/main.py
PIDFile=/var/run/coffeerecommendationbot.pid
Restart=always
RestartSec=30
User=<user to run as>
Group=<group to run as>

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target