I've recently opened an issue ( https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/issues/1038) regarding my custom bots which the intelmq was unable to find and run. I had the definition in BOTS and configs, the files were there as specified by the path. It was suggested to me that that the definitons in /usr/local/bin/"bot path" were missing which indeed was true but creating the respective files solved some issues and created some more as it happens. The intelmqctl now recognizes the bots and runs them, but when I try to stop the bot it displays that the bot wasn't running.