The worker started up with ./config.ini - not /etc/3bot/config.ini. Assuming the info is wrong. /etc/3bot/config.ini does not exist and everything works as expected.
(dev)root@server:/var/www/server/dev# worker.py start
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Try Starting Worker with following settings found in '/etc/3bot/config.ini'
ENDPOINT: *
PORT: 55556
LOGFILE: ./3bot-worker.log
LOGLEVEL: INFO
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