How to setup screen+irssi start at boot time

HOWTO screen+irssi at boot time.txt

[user@ircshell ~]$ mkdir -p ~/bin

[user@ircshell ~]$ cat > ~/bin/start_irssi.sh <<-'EOF'
#!/bin/bash
# Set timezone
export TZ='EET'
#
# Start a new screen with unicode support (-U), named as 'irc' (-S),
# in detached mode (-m -d) and run irssi in it.
/usr/bin/screen -U -S irc -m -d /usr/bin/irssi
EOF

[user@ircshell ~]$ chmod +x ~/bin/start_irssi.sh

Use 'crontab -e' to edit your personal crontab and put this into it:
# Cron runs the script start_irssi.sh at boot time
# During the boot the system wide locale is not yet set and
# thus we are falling back to default locale 'C' so we want
# to provide the right one by setting LANG for our script.
@reboot         LANG="en_DK.UTF-8" $HOME/bin/start_irssi.sh


Now, go ahead and read the fine manual in order to configure your irssi
to auto-connect and auto-join to channels when it starts:
https://irssi.org/documentation/startup/#server-and-channel-automation

Thank you for this, just what I was looking for!

However, I encountered issue with not all necessary startup processes catching up there in the boot (mainly dns), so irssi
was nagging about Temporary failure in name resolution when connecting to a server.

I resolved the issue by adding one minute sleep to @reboot: the following way:

@reboot sleep 60 && LANG="en_DK.UTF-8" $HOME/bin/start_irssi.sh

ofc, chaning the LANG to my local one too ;)

Thanks again!