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+[Unit]
+Description=Crawler service overseer, manages running main crawler software
+After=multi-user.target
+Conflicts=getty@tty1.service
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /srv/crawler/crawler.py
+StandardInput=tty-force
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target