add example startup/init script and crontab

bashbot.cron

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+#
+# this is an exmaple crontab file for telegram-bot-bash
+# copy it to /etc/cron.d/bashbot
+#
+# (c) https://github.com/gnadelwartz
+#
+# This file is public domain in the USA and all free countries.
+# Elsewhere, consider it to be WTFPLv2. (wtfpl.net/txt/copying)
+
+SHELL=/bin/sh
+PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:
+MAILTO=root # place your mailadress here
+
+
+# ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
+# │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
+# │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
+# │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
+# │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday;
+# │ │ │ │ │                                   7 is also Sunday on some systems)
+# │ │ │ │ │
+# │ │ │ │ │
+# * * * * *  USER command to execute
+# * * * * *  root  echo "run every minute!"
+
+# run as www every day at 0:00
+  0 0 * * * www /usr/local/telegram-bot-bash/bashbot.sh start		# (re)start bot
+  0 0 * * * www /usr/local/telegram-bot-bash/bashbot.sh resumeback	# (re)start background jobs
+
+# run as www on 24 of Dec, 12:00
+  0 12 24 12 * www /usr/local/telegram-bot-bash/bashbot.sh broadcast "X-Mas shopping is over!"	# broadcast qa message
+

bashbot.rc

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+#!/bin/sh
+# description: Start or stop telegram-bash-bot
+#
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides: bashbot
+# Required-Start: $network $syslog
+# Required-Stop: $network
+# Default-Start: 2 3 5
+# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
+# Description: Start or stop telegram-bot-bash server
+### END INIT INFO
+
+runas="root"  # not recommended!
+runcmd="echo" # not activated until you edit lines below
+
+# uncomment the next line to run as other user, e.g. www
+# runas="www" 
+
+# uncomment one of the following lines 
+# runcmd="su $runas -s /bin/bash -c "      # runasuser with su
+# runcmd="runuser $runas -s /bin/bash -c " # runasuser with runuser
+
+# uncomment and adjust the the values of the following lines
+# start="/usr/local/telegram-bot-bash/bashbot.sh"
+# lockfile=/usr/local/telegram-bot-bash/lockfile
+# name='new-session' # telegram name of your bot
+
+
+case "$1" in
+'start')
+	$runcmd "$start start" # >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null
+	RETVAL=$?
+	if [ "$RETVAL" = "0" ]; then
+		touch $lockfile >/dev/null 2>&1
+	fi
+	;;
+'stop')
+	$runcmd "$start kill"
+	RETVAL=$?
+	if [ "$RETVAL" = "0" ]; then
+		rm -f $lockfile
+	fi
+	;;
+'status')
+	ps -f -u $runas | grep "$name" | grep -qF "bashbot.sh startbot"
+	if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
+		echo "$name is running"
+		RETVAL=0
+	else
+		echo "$name is stopped"
+		RETVAL=1
+	fi
+	;;
+'restart'|'reload')
+	$stop ; $start
+	RETVAL=$?
+	;;
+'suspendback'|'resumeback'|'killback')
+	$runcmd "$start $1"
+	;;
+*)
+	echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop | restart | reload | suspendback | resumeback | killback }"
+	RETVAL=1
+	;;
+esac
+exit $RETVAL
+

bashbot.sh

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 # bashbot, the Telegram bot written in bash.
 # Written by Drew (@topkecleon) and Daniil Gentili (@danogentili).
-# Also contributed: JuanPotato, BigNerd95, TiagoDanin, iicc1.
+# Also contributed: JuanPotato, BigNerd95, TiagoDanin, iicc1, Gnadelwartz.
 # https://github.com/topkecleon/telegram-bot-bash
 
 # Depends on JSON.sh (http://github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh) (MIT/Apache),