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ATHEME-SERVICES(8) System Manager's Manual ATHEME-SERVICES(8)

atheme-services - a modular IRC services daemon

atheme-services [-dhnv] [-c conf] [-l logfile] [-p pidfile]

This manual page documents the atheme-services command.

atheme-services is an IRC Services implementation, which connects to an IRC server and provides services such as NickServ and ChanServ to users, allowing them to register their nicknames and channels.

atheme-services accepts the following command line options:

Specifies an alternate config file for the daemon to load.
Starts in debugging mode.
Prints the help message and exits.
Specifies the log file.
Doesn't fork into the background, logs messages to stdout as well as the logfile.
Specifies the pid file.
Prints the version information and exits.

atheme-services was primarly written by:

William Pitcock <nenolod -at- nenolod.net>
Michael Tharp <gxti -at- partiallystapled.com>
Jilles Tjoelker <jilles -at- stack.nl>
Pippijn van Steenhoven <pippijn -at- one09.net>
Robin Burchell <w00t -at- staff.chatspike.net>

This manual page was originally written by Bradley Smith <brad@brad-smith.co.uk>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

This manual page was later revised by William Pitcock <nenolod@sacredspiral.co.uk>.

November 2007