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Start Irssi with Screen on startup on Arch Linux on Raspberry PI
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Start Irssi with Screen on startup on Arch Linux on Raspberry PI

Put this in the file /etc/systemd/system/irssiscreen@.service

[Unit]
Description=irssiscreen
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=%i
ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -dmS ircsess irssi
ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S ircsess -X quit

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable the service with:

sudo systemctl enable irssiscreen@yourusername.service

To reattach, simply run:

screen -rd
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If you replace
ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S ircsess -X quit
with
ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S ircsess -X stuff '/quit\n'

irssi will receive and process the /quit command, meaning the client will cleanly disconnect from connected services. I find this to be a nicer way of shutting down.

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