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  • Committer: Björn Påhlsson
  • Date: 2011-10-02 19:18:24 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 505.
  • Revision ID: belorn@fukt.bsnet.se-20111002191824-eweh4pvneeg3qzia
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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 "2012-05-26">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2011-08-08">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
 
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          <email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
 
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          <email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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    </authorgroup>
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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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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      <arg><option>--no-dbus</option></arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg><option>--no-ipv6</option></arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg><option>--no-restore</option></arg>
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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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    </cmdsynopsis>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="ipv6"/>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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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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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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        <term><option>--statedir
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        <replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></term>
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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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    </variablelist>
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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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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
 
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.  A client successfully
 
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      receiving its password will also be treated as a successful
 
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      checker run.
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    <title>LOGGING</title>
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      <filename class="devicefile">/dev/log</filename>.  With the
 
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      <filename>/dev/log</filename>.  With the
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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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      restarts, and run-time changes will override settings in
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      <filename>clients.conf</filename>.  However, if a setting is
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    <title>D-BUS INTERFACE</title>
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            Directory where persistent state will be saved.  Change
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        <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>.