---
name: "limnoria"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "limnoria"
version: "2025.5.3-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/limnoria"
---

# limnoria(1)

A robust and user friendly Python IRC bot

## NAME

limnoria - A robust and user friendly Python IRC bot

## SYNOPSIS

**limnoria** \[*options*\] *configFile*

## DESCRIPTION

**Limnoria** is a robust, user-friendly, and programmer-friendly Python IRC bot. It aims to be an adequate replacement for most existing IRC bots.  It includes a very flexible and powerful ACL system for controlling access to commands, as well as more than 50 builtin plugins providing around 400 actual commands.

## OPTIONS

- **--version**

  Show version of program.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-P**, **--profile**

  Enable profiling.

- **-n** *NICK***, --nick=***NICK*

  Nick the bot should use.

- **-u** *USER***, --user=***USER*

  Full username the bot should use.

- **-i** *IDENT***, --ident=***IDENT*

  Ident the bot should use.

- **-d**, **--daemon**

  Determines whether the bot will daemonize.  This is a no-op on non-POSIX systems.

- **--allow-default-owner**

  Determines whether the bot will allow its defaultCapabilities not to include "-owner", thus giving all users the owner capability by default.  This is dumb, hence we require a command-line option to enable it.

- **--allow-root**

  Determines whether the bot will be allowed to run as root.  You do not want this.  Do not do it.  Even if you think you want it, you do not.

- **--debug**

  Determines whether some extra debugging stuff will be logged by this script.

## SEE ALSO

[*python*(1)](/python/1.md), [*limnoria-test*(1)](/limnoria-test/1.md), [*limnoria-botchk*(1)](/limnoria-botchk/1.md), [*limnoria-wizard*(1)](/limnoria-wizard/1.md), [*limnoria-adduser*(1)](/limnoria-adduser/1.md), [*limnoria-plugin-doc*(1)](/limnoria-plugin-doc/1.md), [*limnoria-plugin-create*(1)](/limnoria-plugin-create/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was originally written by James McCoy \<vega dot james at gmail dot com\>.  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Limnoria license, a BSD-style license.