Conf edited, die gone, installed to ~/botdir. SSH in. Do not start this from screen/tmux.
First start
cd ~/botdir
./eggdrop -m botnick.conf
-m creates the userfile. First time only. The process daemonizes by itself. Read what it prints — it tells you the next /msg.
Later starts:
./eggdrop botnick.conf
Debug / foreground (quitting kills the bot; not the normal run mode):
./eggdrop -nt botnick.conf
Introduce yourself
When it shows on IRC, /msg BotNick hello (or whatever init-server / hello you set). Then:
/msg BotNick pass YourPassword
/dcc chat BotNick
Partyline: interact with the bot. Never joined? this.
Persist
./scripts/autobotchk botnick.conf
Crontab, not screen. botchk.
AUP: max 2 IRC connections per shell to a given network.