NAME

       zorp_ - Zorp Firewall Suite

SYNOPSIS

       zorp [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The zorp command is the main entry point for a Zorp instance, and as such it is generally
       called by zorpctl(8) with command line parameters specified in instances.conf(5).

OPTIONS

       --version or -V
           Display version number and compilation information.

       --as <name> or -a <name>
           Set instance name to <name>. Instance names may consist of the characters [a-zA-Z0-9_]
           and must begin with a letter. Log messages of this instance are prefixed with this
           name.

       --also-as <name> or -A <name>
           Add a secondary instance named <name>. Secondary instances share the same Zorp process
           but they have a separate section in the configuration file.

       --policy <name> or -p <name>
           Use the file called <name> as policy. This file must be a valid policy file.

       --verbose <verbosity> or -v <verbosity>
           Set verbosity level to <verbosity>, or if <verbosity> is omitted increment it by one.
           Default the verbosity level is 3; possible values are 0-10.

       --pidfile <pidfile> or -P <pidfile>
           Set path to the PID file where the pid of the main process is stored.

       --foreground or -F
           Do not daemonize, run in the foreground.

       --process-mode <mode>
           Set processing mode to one of background, safe-background or foreground.

       --no-syslog or -l
           Send log messages to the standard output instead of syslog.

       --log-tags or -T
           Prepend log category and log level to each message.

       --log-escape
           Escape non-printable characters to avoid binary log files. Each character less than
           0x20 and greater than 0x7F are escaped in the form <XX>.

       --log-spec <spec> or -s <spec>
           Set verbosity mask on a per category basis. Each log message has an assigned
           multi-level category, where levels are separated by a dot. For example, HTTP requests
           are logged under http.request.  <spec> is a comma separated list of log
           specifications. A single log specification consists of a wildcard matching log
           category, a colon, and a number specifying the verbosity level of that given category.
           Categories match from left to right. E.g.: --logspec 'http.*:5,core:3'. The last
           matching entry will be used as the verbosity of the given category. If no match is
           found the default verbosity specified with --verbose is used.

       --threads <num> or -t <num>
           Set the maximum number of threads that can be used in parallel by this Zorp instance.

       --idle-threads <num> or -I
           Set the maximum number of idle threads; this option has effect only if threadpools are
           enabled (see the option --threadpools).

       --threadpools or -O
           Enable the use of threadpools, which means that threads associated with sessions are
           not automatically freed, only if the maximum number of idle threads is exceeded.

       --user <user> or -u <user>
           Switch to the supplied user after starting up.

       --group <group> or -g <group>
           Switch to the supplied group after starting up.

       --chroot <dir> or -R <dir>
           Change root to the specified directory before reading the configuration file. The
           directory must be set up accordingly.

       --caps <caps> or -C <caps>
           Switch to the supplied set of capabilities after starting up. This should contain the
           required capabilities in the permitted set. For the syntax of capability description
           see the man page cap_from_text(3).

       --no-caps or -N
           Do not change capabilities at all.

       --crypto-engine <engine> or -E <engine>
           Set the OpenSSL crypto engine to be used for hardware accelerated crypto support.

       --stack-size <size> or -S <size>
           Set the maximum stack size used by threads. Note that the maximum number of parallel
           threads is influenced by the size specified here. The default stack size is 512 KB,
           the maximum you can set is 8192 KB.

FILES

       /etc/zorp/

       /etc/zorp/policy.py

       /etc/zorp/instances.conf

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by the BalaBit Documentation Team
       <documentation@balabit.com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2006 BalaBit IT Security Ltd. All rights reserved. For more information about
       the legal status of this document please read:
       http://www.balabit.com/products/zorp/docs/legal_notice.bbq

[FIXME: source]                             03/06/2012                                    ZORP(8)