fido (1) - Linux Manuals

Command to display fido manual in Linux: $ man 1 fido

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

fido [option]

DESCRIPTION

fido is a multi-threaded daemon that can watch several files at once. It looks for patterns that you configure and executes scripts or programs in the event of a match. fido works in ``realish-time'' in that it is about a second or so behind the clock.

OPTIONS

Option Syntax

Since fido uses GNU getopt to process command-line arguments, every option has a long form along with the short one. Long options are more convenient to remember, but take time to type. You may freely mix different option styles, i.e.,

  $ fido -d --pid=/var/run/fido.pid

Startup Options

-V, --version

Display the version of fido and exit.

-h, --help

Print a help message describing all of fido's command-line options and exit.

-C, --config

Prints the default values for all configurable settings. Values are read from the active resource file and command line arguements.

-f /path/file, --file=/path/file

This option can be used to specify a fido config file. If none is selected it will attempt to load FIDORC as an ENV variable. If FIDORC is not set, then it will attempt the following files in this order:

  /etc/fido/fido.conf
  /etc/fido.conf 
  /usr/local/etc/fido.conf 
  /usr/local/etc/fido/fido.conf

At this point, if fido hasn't found a config file, it will try to run off command line arguments. NOTE: Command line arguments take precedent over config file settings.

-d, --daemon

This options tells fido to run in the background as a daemon. This is a default option so select this to override the config file.

Sets the network protocol to ICMP. During a netscan, fido can use either ICMP echo (default) or TCP/IP connect for discovery. This option sets the protocol to ICMP. This option is like pinging hosts on a network with the ping utility. ICMP requires raw sockets. Therefore, fido must either be run as root or setuid root. (see ERRORS below).

-p /path/file, --pid=/path/file

By default, fido writes a pid file to /var/run/fido.pid You may override that location with this option, fido --pid=/var/lib/run/fido.pid

-l VAL, --log=VAL

Use this option to specify a logging method. The values can be ``/path/to/file'' or ``syslog'' fido can either log its messages to syslog or it can use its own internal logging mechanism to write to a specified file.

CONFIG FILE

fido's configurable options can be set and stored in config files. All stored settings can be overridden with command line arguments. If a logging mechanism is set in config file, it can be overridden with --log. fido reads config files in a priortized fashion. The ENV variable FIDORC is the highest. That is followed by '-f /path/file' and by the system defaults:

  /etc/fido/fido.conf
  /etc/fido.conf
  /usr/local/etc/fido.conf
  /usr/local/etc/fido/fido.conf

Here is an example that sets an ENV variable and invokes the program:

  $ FIDORC=/home/jeff/haha fido -d

AUTHOR

: Jeffrey Fulmer, et al. <jeff [at] joedog.org>

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.