---
name: "atheme-services"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "atheme-services"
version: "7.2.12-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/atheme-services"
---

# atheme-services(8)

a modular IRC services daemon

## NAME

atheme-services - a modular IRC services daemon

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

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.

## OPTIONS

**atheme-services** accepts the following command line options:

- **-c *conf***

  Specifies an alternate config file for the daemon to load.

- **-d**

  Starts in debugging mode.

- **-h**

  Prints the help message and exits.

- **-l *logfile***

  Specifies the log file.

- **-n**

  Doesn't fork into the background, logs messages to stdout as well as the logfile.

- **-p *pidfile***

  Specifies the pid file.

- **-v**

  Prints the version information and exits.

## 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).

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