anope.1

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.TH ANOPE 2.0 "January 2014"
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.SH NAME
anope \- Anope is a set of IRC Services designed for flexibility and ease of use.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B anope
[\-\-nofork] [\-\-debug] [\-\-version] [\-\-nothird] [\-\-noexpire] [\-\-readonly]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B anope 
command.

.PP
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\fBAnope\fP is a set of Services for IRC networks that allows users to manage their nicks and channels in a secure and efficient way, and administrators to manage their network with powerful tools.
.PP
The \fPanope\fP command starts the services server, using ~/.anope/services.conf as its configuration file unless used with \fB\-\-config\fP.  

.SH OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
A summary of options is included below.
For the complete documentation for Anope, please see https://wiki.anope.org/.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-version
Show version of program.
.TP
.B \-c, \-\-config <config>
Specify the config file
.B \-d, \-\-debug
Start Anope in debug mode
.B \-n, \-\-nofork
Do not fork to the background
.B \-\-nothird
Do not load third party modules on start
.B -\s, \-\-support
Short form for --debug --nothird
.B -\r, \-\-readonly
Start Anope in read only mode. (do not save changes to the db)
.B -\e, \-\-noexpire
Start Anope in noexpire mode, do not run the expiry routines for nicks and channels

.SH SEE ALSO
Anope fully documented at https://wiki.anope.org/.
.SH AUTHOR
Anope was written by the Anope team and more, for a full list see http://anope.org/team.php or read the credits in the README file.
.PP
This manual page was written by Jens Voss <Dukepyrolator@anope.org>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).