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 ### shitty (half-)vibecoded discord bot
 ## overall
 you can use this as a base for your discord bot by writing your own [cogs](/cogs/), or as is.
+keep in mind that [systemd_service.sh](systemd_service.sh) is ONLY for systemd. 
 
 
 ## installation
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 ```
 you can then edit the [config.py](/config.py) to your liking.
 
+## usage
+the bot is running when the main.py script is running.
+
+### systemd service
+you can configure a systemd service for this bot.
+*tested on Ubuntu 24.04*
+
+simply do:
+```
+chmod +x systemd_service.sh
+./systemd_service.sh
+```
+the systemd service will now start and auto start on reboot.
+
+### updating with systemd service
+keep in mind that after updating with the systemd service enabled, you will need to restart the service.
+so the update workflow looks something like this:
+```
+git pull origin main
+sudo systemctl restart muzovkantv2
+```
+
 ## contacting
 if you have any feedback, contact me on github issues or/and discord. if you want to add any functions to this bot, make a PR.
 when submitting a bug report, make sure to attach the bot.log files. they generate automatically in root directory.