.TH ATHEME\-SERVICES 8 "November 2007"
.SH NAME
atheme\-services \- a modular IRC services daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B atheme\-services
\&\fR[\fB\-dhnv\fR] [\fB\-c\fR \fIconf\fR] [\fB\-l\fR \fIlogfile\fR] [\fB\-p\fR \fIpidfile\fR]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the
.B atheme\-services
command.
.PP
\fBatheme\-services\fP 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.
.SH OPTIONS
\fBatheme\-services\fR accepts the following command line options:
.TP
.B \-c \fIconf\fR
Specifies an alternate config file for the daemon to load.
.TP
.B \-d
Starts in debugging mode.
.TP
.B \-h
Prints the help message and exits.
.TP
.B \-l \fIlogfile\fR
Specifies the log file.
.TP
.B \-n
Doesn't fork into the background, logs messages to stdout as well as the logfile.
.TP
.B \-p \fIpidfile\fR
Specifies the pid file.
.TP
.B \-v
Prints the version information and exits.
.SH AUTHOR
atheme\-services was primarly written by:
.PP
.RS 4
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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>
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.RE
.PP
This manual page was originally written by Bradley Smith <brad@brad\-smith.co.uk>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
.PP
This manual page was later revised by William Pitcock <nenolod@sacredspiral.co.uk>.