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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2011-11-26 22:22:20 UTC
  • mto: (237.12.8 mandos-persistent)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 290.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20111126222220-1ubwjpb5ugqnrhec
Directory with persistent state can now be changed with the "statedir"
option.  The state directory /var/lib/mandos now gets created on
installation.  Added documentation about "restore" and "statedir"
options.

* Makefile (USER, GROUP, STATEDIR): New.
  (maintainer-clean): Also remove "statedir".
  (run-server): Replaced "--no-restore" with "--statedir=statedir".
  (statedir): New.
  (install-server): Make $(STATEDIR) directory.
* debian/mandos.dirs (var/lib/mandos): Added.
* debian/mandos.postinst: Fix ownership of /var/lib/mandos.
* mandos: New --statedir option.
  (stored_state_path): Not global anymore.
  (stored_state_file): New global.
* mandos.conf: Fix whitespace.
  (restore, statedir): Added.
* mandos.conf.xml (OPTIONS, EXAMPLE): Added "restore" and "statedir".
  mandos.xml (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Added "--statedir".
  (FILES): Added "/var/lib/mandos".

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2016-02-28">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2011-11-26">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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      <year>2009</year>
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      <year>2010</year>
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      <year>2011</year>
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      <year>2012</year>
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      <year>2014</year>
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      <year>2015</year>
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      <year>2016</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg><option>--statedir
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      <replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg><option>--socket
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      <replaceable>FD</replaceable></option></arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg><option>--foreground</option></arg>
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      <arg><option>--no-zeroconf</option></arg>
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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        <term><option>--no-restore</option></term>
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="restore"/>
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          <para>
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            See also <xref linkend="persistent_state"/>.
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="statedir"/>
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        <term><option>--socket
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        <replaceable>FD</replaceable></option></term>
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="socket"/>
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        <term><option>--foreground</option></term>
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        <term><option>--no-zeroconf</option></term>
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  </refsect1>
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      extended timeout, checker program, and interval between checks
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      can be configured both globally and per client; see
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-clients.conf</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
 
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.  A client successfully
 
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      <option>--debug</option> option, it will log even more messages,
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      <filename>clients.conf</filename>, are persistent across
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