Why did you try to open the jar or version files?

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Read the User Guide. It tells you exactly what to do.

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Yes, it is secure: you have exactly the same login as using TWS or Gateway directly, including 2FA via the IBKR Mobile app.

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And no, your account can’t be hacked. Of course you need to make sure you don’t leave your phone unlocked in a place where someone else can access it while logon is under way.

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There is absolutely no reason to do any coding, or know anything at all about coding, to use IBC.

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Richard

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Ah, this is becoming clearer now. I misunderstood what you wrote initially: I took it to mean that all these lines are appearing on the console:

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Finding autorestart file

INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).

autorestart file not found

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but actually you just mean the middle line – re-reading it now I see you stated quite clearly what you meant, so apologies that I misunderstood.

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The reason for the difference is that the first and last of these lines are simply the result of echo statements, whereas the middle one is an error message produced by the ‘where’ command when trying to locate the autorestart file: presumably it’s written to the STDERR stream.

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Now my DisplayBannerAndLaunch.bat script redirects STDERR to STDOUT, and STDOUT is redirected to the logfile. But if ib_insync doesn’t use DisplayBannerAndLaunch.bat, and just calls the low-level StartIBC.bat directly, then perhaps STDERR is not being redirected in this way, so it ends up elsewhere.

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So I guess this is not really a question for me: you’ll need to check what ib_insync does.

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On the other hand, I may be able to discard this error message altogether since it doesn’t really add anything of value, but initial attempts at this have failed (normally one would redirect STDERR for the command to NUL with 2>NUL, but this doesn’t work because the ‘where’ command is within nested FOR ?statements, and it gives a syntax error. But I’ll fiddle a bit more to see if I can bend it to my will. At the end of the day, though, does this actually really matter at all?

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I don’t know what you mean.

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Please explain.

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I’ll be out for the rest of the day, but will respond when I can.

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Well, that didn’t throw any light on it. I really can’t see why just those three lines should appear on the console.

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I presume by ‘console’ you mean the banner window? And when you say ‘no others show’, ?presumably you mean the usual stuff shows, like this:

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+==============================================================================

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+ IBC version 3.16.0-beta.1

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+ Running TWS 1020 at 21/12/2022 18:20:00.76

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+ Diagnostic information is logged in:

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+ C:\IBC-Paper\.\Logs\IBC-3.16.0-beta.1_TWS-1020_WEDNESDAY.txt

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+ ** Caution: closing this window will close TWS 1020 **

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But you get these three extra lines at the end?

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If you mean something else, please send a screenshot if you can capture one.

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The only other thing that might be of interest is the value of the LOG_PATH setting in StartTWS.bat.

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I didn’t manage to get as far as I hoped yesterday – it was all working fine for TWS, but not yet for Gateway.

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As I’m not sure when I’ll be able to finish the Gateway work, I decided to issue a beta version so that TWS users can test the new RESTART command (if you try it on Gateway, the command will be accepted but nothing happens, it just keeps running).

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So this is IBC 3.16.0-beta.1:

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You’ll need to extract the IBC.jars and version files, overwriting your existing ones.

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If you’re running on Windows, you’ll also need to extract the new SendCommand.bat script, and the SendIBCCommand.vbs file from the /Scripts subfolder. You’ll probably need to Unblock all these files. You’ll need to read the comments in SendCommand.bat and make any necessary changes. SendIBCCommand.vbs should not be altered. When you run this script, you must supply the relevant command as the first argument, for example:

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SendCommand RESTART

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or

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SendCommand STOP

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On Linux, run the telnet session in the usual way and use the command RESTART (I can never remember how to script telnet on Linux, and I don’t want to waste time looking it up now, but I’m sure you lot know what to do).

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Shrivelled walnut, more like. And decreasing with every passing day…

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I have actually just done the code for this, need to test – but lunch first! Maybe issue a beta version later today (probably won’t be tested on Linux because everything here runs on Windows during the day, but in practise this sort of thing tends to work equally well on both with no trouble).

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That’s correct.

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Having said that, it occurs to me that until IB provide the Restart menu entry in Gateway, it would be possible for IBC’s proposed RESTART command to force a Gateway restart by explicitly changing the Auto-restart time to something in the near future: Gateway would then do a normal restart when that time arrived, and IBC would do the necessary. Because doing this would persist that new auto-restart time in the Gateway settings, It would be necessary for config.ini to contain the AutoRestartTime setting to reconfigure it back to the desired ‘normal’ time.

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I don’t know how close to current time you can set the Auto-restart time such that Gateway will act on it, but I can find out via experimentation. But it may be necessary to incur a delay of say 30 seconds when using this approach.

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Regarding life, Marvin the paranoid android would agree with you, but I’m not sure working on IBC would have alleviated the pain in all the diodes down his left side…

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When I wrote:

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‘Note that this restart menu item isn't available for Gateway, but maybe IB will provide it in a future version.’

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what did you think I meant?

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I will do this command when I get some time to do it. Strange to say, I do actually have a life outside of working on IBC…

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