code: def init(confdir="/etc/cslbot"):
      
      multiprocessing.set_start_method('spawn')
  
      parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
      parser.add_argument('-d', '--debug', help='Enable debug logging.', action='store_true')
      parser.add_argument('--validate', help='Initialize the db and perform other sanity checks.', action='store_true')
      args = parser.parse_args()
      loglevel = logging.DEBUG if args.debug else logging.INFO
      logging.basicConfig(level=loglevel, format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s:%(module)s:%(message)s")
      # We don't need a bunch of output from the requests module.
      logging.getLogger("requests").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
  
      cslbot = IrcBot(confdir)
  
      if args.validate:
          cslbot.shutdown_mp()
          print("Everything is ready to go!")
          return
  
      try:
          cslbot.start()
      except KeyboardInterrupt:
          # KeyboardInterrupt means someone tried to ^C, so shut down the bot
          cslbot.disconnect('Bot received a Ctrl-C')
          cslbot.shutdown_mp()
          sys.exit(0)
      except Exception as ex:
          cslbot.shutdown_mp(False)
          logging.error("The bot died! %s", ex)
          output = "".join(traceback.format_exc()).strip()
          for line in output.split('\n'):
              logging.error(line)
          sys.exit(1)
docs: The bot's main entry point.
  
      | Initialize the bot and start processing messages.