ATHEME-SERVICES(8)

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✨ ATHEME-SERVICES ✨ (section 8, bestie — System Manager's Manual energy)

okay so real talk, this is atheme-services, and it lives in section 8 of your manual. it's giving "modular IRC services daemon" and honestly? iconic. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

atheme-services — a modular IRC services daemon

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this manual page documents the atheme-services command. that's the whole job, and it ate.

atheme-services is an IRC Services implementation, no cap. what it does is connect to an IRC server and provide services like NickServ and ChanServ to users, which lets them register their nicknames and channels. literally the backbone of your whole IRC society. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

atheme-services accepts the following command line options, and you will be reading all of them, bestie:

  • -c conf — specifies an alternate config file for the daemon to load. pick your own adventure config. 📄
  • -d — starts in debugging mode. main character detective era. 🔍
  • -h — prints the help message and exits. the "help me help you" flag. 🙈
  • -l logfile — specifies the log file. receipts go here, always. 🧾
  • -n — doesn't fork into the background, and logs messages to stdout as well as the logfile. so it stays right there in your face, chatting. 🗣️
  • -p pidfile — specifies the pid file. that's where the daemon's pid number goes to live. 🏠
  • -v — prints the version information and exits. vibe check the version real quick. ⭐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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). sharing is caring, fr fr. 🫶

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

shoutout to the whole squad for building the thing 💜

and that's the whole page, babes — this came out in November 2007 as part of ATHEME-SERVICES(8). slay, periodt. 🌈✨

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