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6 qpidd - the Qpid AMQP Broker Daemon
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9 qpidd [options]
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12 An AMQP broker daemon that stores, routes and forwards messages using
13 the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP).
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16 Options may be specified via command line, environment variable or con‐
17 figuration file. See FILES and ENVIRONMENT below for details.
18 -h [ --help ]
20 Displays the help message
21 -v [ --version ]
23 Displays version information
24 --config FILE (/etc/qpidd.conf)
26 Reads configuration from FILE
27 Module options:
29 --module-dir DIR (/usr/lib/qpidd)
30 Load all .so modules in this directory
31 --load-module FILE
33 Specifies additional module(s) to be loaded
34 --no-module-dir
36 Don't load modules from module directory
37 Broker Options:
39 --data-dir DIR (/var/lib/qpidd)
40 Directory to contain persistent data generated by the broker
41 --no-data-dir
43 Don't use a data directory. No persistent configuration will be
44 loaded or stored
45 -p [ --port ] PORT (5672)
47 Tells the broker to listen on PORT
48 --worker-threads [22mN (3)
50 Sets the broker thread pool size
51 --max-connections [22mN (500)
53 Sets the maximum allowed connections
54 --connection-backlog [22mN (10)
56 Sets the connection backlog limit for the server socket
57 --staging-threshold [22mN (5000000)
59 Stages messages over N bytes to disk
60 -m [ --mgmt-enable ] yes|no (1)
62 Enable Management
63 --mgmt-pub-interval [22mSECONDS (10)
65 Management Publish Interval
66 --auth yes|no (1)
68 Enable authentication, if disabled all incoming connections will
69 be trusted
70 --realm REALM (QPID)
72 Use the given realm when performing authentication
73 --ack [22mN (0)
75 Send session.ack/solicit-ack at least every N frames. 0 disables
76 voluntary ack/solitict-ack
77 Daemon options:
79 -d [ --daemon ]
80 Run as a daemon.
81 -w [ --wait ] SECONDS (10)
83 Sets the maximum wait time to initialize the daemon. If the dae‐
84 mon fails to initialize, prints an error and returns 1
85 -c [ --check ]
87 Prints the daemon's process ID to stdout and returns 0 if the
88 daemon is running, otherwise returns 1
89 -q [ --quit ]
91 Tells the daemon to shut down
92 Logging options:
94 --log-output FILE (stderr)
95 Send log output to FILE. FILE can be a file name or one of the
96 special values: stderr, stdout, syslog
97 -t [ --trace ]
99 Enables all logging
100 --log-enable RULE (error+)
102 Enables logging for selected levels and components. RULE is in
103 the form 'LEVEL[+][:PATTERN]' Levels are one of:
104 trace debug info notice warning error critical
106 For example: '--log-enable warning+' logs all warning, error and
108 critical messages. '--log-enable debug:framing' logs debug mes‐
109 sages from the framing namespace. This option can be used multi‐
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111 --log-time yes|no (1)
113 Include time in log messages
114 --log-level yes|no (1)
116 Include severity level in log messages
117 --log-source yes|no (0)
119 Include source file:line in log messages
120 --log-thread yes|no (0)
122 Include thread ID in log messages
123 --log-function yes|no (0)
125 Include function signature in log messages
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128 /etc/qpidd.conf
129 Default configuration file.
130 Configuration file settings are over-ridden by command line or environ‐
132 ment variable settings. '--config <file>' or 'export QPID_CON‐
133 FIG=<file>' specifies an alternate file.
134 Each line is a name=value pair. Blank lines and lines beginning with #
136 are ignored. For example:
137 # My qpidd configuration file.
139 port=6000
140 max-connections=10
141 log-output=stdout
142 log-output=/tmp/qpidd.log
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145 QPID_<option>
146 There is an environment variable for each option.
147 The environment variable is the option name in uppercase, prefixed with
149 QPID_ and '.' or '-' are replaced with '_'. Environment settings are
150 over-ridden by command line settings. For example:
151 export QPID_PORT=6000
153 export QPID_MAX_CONNECTIONS=10
154 export QPID_LOG_OUTPUT=/tmp/qpidd.log
155qpidd (qpidc) version 0.2 May 2008 QPIDD(1)