the bot can now exit gracefully.

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-/response/error.txt
+response/error.txt
 log.txt
-.botinput
+.*
 bot.cfg
 bot.cfg

bot.sh

@@ -6,19 +6,22 @@ if [ "$(whoami)" = "root" ]; then
 fi
 [ -f functions.sh ] && source functions.sh
 [ -f bot.cfg ] && source bot.cfg
-export allowList
-export ignoreList
-input=".botinput"
 
-close_bot() {
+# Variables important to modules need to be exported here.
-    echo -en "QUIT :${quitMessage}\r\n" | telnet "$server" "$port"
+export allowList
+export input
+export ignoreList
+export quitMessage
+
+rm_input() {
+    if [[ -f "$input" ]]; then
         rm "$input"
-    exit 0
+    fi
 }
 
-trap close_bot EXIT $?
+trap rm_input  EXIT
 
-echo "Session started $(date "+%I:%M%p%n    %A, %B %d, %Y")" | tee "$log" 
+echo -e "Session started $(date "+%I:%M%p%n    %A, %B %d, %Y").\n\nTo gracefully exit, make sure you are in the allow list and send the command exit to the bot.\n\n" | tee "$log" 
 echo "NICK $nick" > "$input"
 echo "USER $user" >> "$input"
 echo "JOIN #$channel" >> "$input"
@@ -149,3 +152,6 @@ tail -f "$input" | telnet "$server" "$port" | while read -r result ; do
         ;;
     esac
 done
+
+rm_input
+exit 0

functions.sh

@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-if [ -z "$input" ]; then
+if [[ -z "$input" ]]; then
-input=".botinput"
+    input="$(mktemp .XXXXXX)"
 fi
 
+close_bot() {
+    echo -en "QUIT :${quitMessage}\r\n" >> "$input"
+}
+
 msg()
 {
   local msg="PRIVMSG $1 :"

modules/exit/exit.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[ -f functions.sh ] && source functions.sh
+
+user=$1
+shift
+shift
+if [[ "$user" =~ $allowList ]]; then
+   close_bot
+fi