2 .TH KNOPWATCHD 8 "February 2009" Linux
5 \- "FwKnop Watch Daemon" checks to make sure knopmd, knoptm and fwknop daemons
8 .B knopwatchd [options]
11 checks on an interval of every five seconds to make sure that knopmd, knoptm
12 and fwknopd are running on the box. If any of the three daemons have died,
13 knopwatchd will restart the daemon and notify each email address listed in the
14 EMAIL_ADDRESSES variable that the daemon has been restarted.
16 uses the fwknop.conf configuration file which by default is located at
17 /etc/fwknop/, but a different path can be specified on the command line.
20 .BR \-c\ \<config\-file>
21 Specify path to config file instead of using the default configuration file
22 /etc/fwknop/fwknop.conf.
25 Dump the configuration values that
27 derives from /etc/fwknop/fwknop.conf (or other override files) on STDERR.
30 Display usage information and exit.
32 .BR \-O\ \<config\-file>
33 Override config variable values that are normally read from the
34 /etc/fwknop/fwknop.conf file with values from the specified file. Multiple
35 override config files can be given as a comma separated list.
41 Michael Rash (mbr@cipherdyne.org)
45 is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and the latest
46 version may be downloaded from
47 .B http://www.cipherdyne.org