NAME

       psadwatchd - checks to make sure kmsgsd and psad are running.

SYNOPSIS

       psadwatchd [options]

DESCRIPTION

       psadwatchd  checks  on an interval of every five seconds to make sure that kmsgsd and psad are running on
       the box.  If either of the other two daemons have died, psadwatchd will restart  the  daemon  and  notify
       each  email  address listed in the EMAIL_ADDRESSES variable (see /etc/psad/psad.conf) that the daemon has
       been restarted.  psadwatchd uses the  psad.conf  configuration  file  which  by  default  is  located  at
       /etc/psad/psad.conf, but a different path can be specified on the command line.

OPTIONS

       -c <config-file>
              Specify path to config file instead of using the default configuration file /etc/psad/psad.conf.

       -D     Dump  the configuration values that psadwatchd derives from /etc/psad/psad.conf (or other override
              files) on STDERR.

       -h     Display usage information and exit.

       -O <config-file>
              Override config variable values that are normally read  from  the  /etc/psad/psad.conf  file  with
              values  from the specified file.  Multiple override config files can be given as a comma separated
              list.

SEE ALSO

       psad(8), kmsgsd(8),

AUTHOR

       Michael Rash (mbr@cipherdyne.org)

       This manual page was written by Daniel Gubser <daniel.gubser@gutreu.ch> for the Debian  GNU/Linux  system
       (but may be used by others).

DISTRIBUTION

       psad  is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and the latest version may be downloaded
       from http://www.cipherdyne.org