NAME

       shibd - Shibboleth daemon

SYNOPSIS

       shibd [-tfFvh] [-c config] [-d prefix] [-p pidfile] [-w seconds] [-x catalog]

DESCRIPTION

       shibd is the Shibboleth daemon.  It handles attribute requests from the Apache Shibboleth
       module and should run in conjunction with it.

OPTIONS

       shibd takes the following command-line options.

       -c pathname
           Specifies the pathname of shibd's configuration file. Defaults to
           /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml or the value of the SHIBSP_CONFIG environment
           variable, if it is set.

       -d pathname
           Installation prefix. Defaults to /usr.

       -F  Stay in the foreground.  Normally, shibd backgrounds itself after starting up.

       -f  Force removal of listener socket.

       -h  Prints out a brief summary of the shibboleth options.

       -p pathname
           Specifies the pathname to use to write out the shibboleth PID file.

       -w seconds
           Seconds to wait for the background shibd to start up before the foreground process
           returns.  If not set, the default value is three seconds.

       -t  Validates the general correctness of the configuration. Not all problems can be
           detected this way, but the chance of successful startup is high if the checking
           process does not log any errors.

       -v  Prints out the version string.

       -x pathname
           Specifies the XML schema catalog to use. Defaults to
           /usr/share/xml/shibboleth/catalog.xml.

AUTHORS

       shibd is part of the Internet 2 Shibboleth project written by Scott Cantor
       <cantor.2@osu.edu>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2005, 2006 Internet2/MACE

       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the Apache 2.0 License <http://www.apache.org/licenses>.