Startup on boot

[IdotMaster1]

Can I start the app on boot up automaticaly and if so how can I do it?

[trekkie1701c]

Add a systemd service.

[Unit]
Description=Discord IRC bridge
   
[Service]
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s
User=user
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/discord-irc --config /path/to/config

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then systemctl daemon-reload and systemctl enable discord-irc.

Note that it 'seems' to hang if you start/restart the service in that it doesn't drop you back to the shell. It's probably fixable but hasn't been something I really felt like looking into.

But in any case, this will not only start the bridge on boot, but if it crashes it'll automatically restart after 5 seconds. It won't, however, restart if the IRC connection or whatever drops - this only detects if the program itself exited.

[notvillers]

I would recommend to add After=network-online.target in the [Unit]