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NAME

       nagios-statd - nagios-statd daemon


SYNOPSIS

       nagios-statd [OPTION]


DESCRIPTION

       nagios-statd (nagios-statd Daemon) is the daemon program for nagiosstat(1)
       .  These programs together comprise a systems monitoring tool
       for various platforms.  It is designed to be integrated with the Nagios
       monitoring tool, although this is not a requirement.

       nagios-statd is the daemon that listens for connections from clients.
       It forks off a new daemon for each incoming connection.  The forked
       daemon executes a series of typical UNIX commands and returns those
       commands standard output to the client.


OPTIONS

       -a, --allowedhosts=HOSTS
       HOSTS is a comma delimited list of hostnames and/or IP addresses to
       accept connections from.  The default behavior (without -a) is to
       accept incoming connections from all hosts.

       -b, --bindto=IP
       Normally, nagios-statd will bind to all interfaces on a machine.  You
       can enter an IP address to get nagios-statd to only bind only on the IP
       of a particular interface.

       -i, --inetd
       It is possible to run nagios-statd from inetd, rather than as a
       standalone daemon.  To do this, you'll need to enter something similar
       to:

              /etc/inetd.conf:
              nagios-statd stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/nagios-statd
              nagios-statd -i
              /etc/services:
              nagios-statd/1040 tcp

       This is probably the best way to run nagios-statd, although that can
       make it prone to inetd DoSes (which might happen if the host is
       monitored on a very short interval, such as every couple seconds).

       -p, --port=PORT
       Port for nagios-statd to listen to.  The default port is 1040.

       -P, --pid=FILE
       Save the pid (process id) of the master daemon to FILE.

       -V, --version
       Output version information and exit.

       -h, --help
       Print short option information and exit.


BUGS

       There is a general lack of feedback for the more obscure platforms.  As
       such their behavior might not always be particularly deterministic.
       Feedback is always welcome.  Redhat Linux contains Python 1.x as
       /usr/bin/python.  This program requires Python 2.x to function.  Either
       change the shebang at the top of the program to point to
       /usr/bin/python2, or change /usr/bin/python to be Python 2.x.


AUTHOR

       April King http://www.twoevils.org
       E-mail: april at twoevils dot org


COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002-2005 April King.

       This is free software, there is NO warranty; not even for
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  This program is
       licensed under the BSD license.  More information is available in the
       LICENSE file included with this program.

       Nagios is a trademark of Ethan Galstad.


SEE ALSO

       nagios-stat(1)

Version 3.12                      17 Nov 2005                  NAGIOS-STATD(8)

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