eddie-cli: connected or not??

[rayfield 0]

Took a few tries to get eddie-cli going on my headless server running Ubuntu 22.04 like this:

eddie-cli -config "/home/me/AirVPN_America_UDP-443-Entry3.ovpn" -login=xxxx@xxxx.com -password="xxxxxxxx" --connect --log.file.enabled 

but several anomalies:

when I try to call the above inside a bash script upon bootup, it never succeeds, though I've marked the file as executable - I find I must kill eddie-cli and run the script manually

when I do so, the Client Area will show the device as connected - for several minutes apparently; within 5-10 minutes if I check again it will say it hasn't been connected for a few minutes. However the local logfile gives no indication of a status change - here's the end of the file:
 

. 2025.06.01 10:11:04 - Flushing DNS
. 2025.06.01 10:11:04 - Flush DNS - systemd-resolved flush-caches
I 2025.06.01 10:11:04 - Checking route IPv4
I 2025.06.01 10:11:04 - Checking route IPv6
I 2025.06.01 10:11:05 - Checking DNS
. 2025.06.01 10:11:05 - Collect network information
! 2025.06.01 10:11:05 - Connected.

Edited ... by rayfield
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