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NAME

6       fido is a realish-time log watchdog and alert daemon.
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SYNOPSIS

9       fido [option]
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DESCRIPTION

12       fido is a multi-threaded daemon that can watch several files at once.
13       It looks for patterns that you configure and executes scripts or pro‐
14       grams in the event of a match. fido works in "realish-time" in that it
15       is about a second or so behind the clock.
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OPTIONS

18       Option Syntax
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20       Since fido uses GNU getopt to process command-line arguments, every
21       option has a long form along with the short one.  Long options are more
22       convenient to remember, but take time to type.  You may freely mix dif‐
23       ferent option styles, i.e.,
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25         $ fido -d --pid=/var/run/fido.pid
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27       Startup Options
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29       -V, --version
30           Display the version of fido and exit.
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32       -h, --help
33           Print a help message describing all of fido's command-line options
34           and exit.
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36       -C, --config
37           Prints the default values for all configurable settings. Values are
38           read from the active resource file and command line arguements.
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40       -f /path/file, --file=/path/file
41           This option can be used to specify a fido config file. If none is
42           selected it will attempt to load FIDORC as an ENV variable. If
43           FIDORC is not set, then it will attempt the following files in this
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46             /etc/fido/fido.conf
47             /etc/fido.conf
48             /usr/local/etc/fido.conf
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51           At this point, if fido hasn't found a config file, it will try to
52           run off command line arguments. NOTE: Command line arguments take
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55       -d, --daemon
56           This options tells fido to run in the background as a daemon. This
57           is a default option so select this to override the config file.
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59           Sets the network protocol to ICMP. During a netscan, fido can use
60           either ICMP echo (default) or TCP/IP connect for discovery. This
61           option sets the protocol to ICMP.  This option is like pinging
62           hosts on a network with the ping utility. ICMP requires raw sock‐
63           ets. Therefore, fido must either be run as root or setuid root.
64           (see ERRORS below).
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66       -p /path/file, --pid=/path/file
67           By default, fido writes a pid file to /var/run/fido.pid You may
68           override that location with this option, fido
69           --pid=/var/lib/run/fido.pid
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71       -l VAL, --log=VAL
72           Use this option to specify a logging method. The values can be
73           "/path/to/file" or "syslog" fido can either log its messages to
74           syslog or it can use its own internal logging mechanism to write to
75           a specified file.
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CONFIG FILE

78           fido's configurable options can be set and stored in config files.
79           All stored settings can be overridden with command line arguments.
80           If a logging mechanism is set in config file, it can be overridden
81           with --log. fido reads config files in a priortized fashion. The
82           ENV variable FIDORC is the highest. That is followed by '-f
83           /path/file' and by the system defaults:
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85             /etc/fido/fido.conf
86             /etc/fido.conf
87             /usr/local/etc/fido.conf
88             /usr/local/etc/fido/fido.conf
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90           Here is an example that sets an ENV variable and invokes the pro‐
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93             $ FIDORC=/home/jeff/haha fido -d
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AUTHOR

96           Jeffrey Fulmer, et al. <jeff@joedog.org>
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SEE ALSO

99           fido.conf(5)
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102           Copyright (C) 2000-2014 by Jeffrey Fulmer, et al.
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104           This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
105           There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
106           PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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