SATELLITED(8)

NAME
satellited - track IP addresses of remote clients

SYNOPSIS
satellited [ -h ]
satellited [ -f file ] [ -v ] [ -e program ]

DESCRIPTION
satellited is designed to be run from inetd(8) using "nowait". You may also want to use tcpd(8) for access control.

Note the security implications of running satellited as root. You will probably want to create a system account for the satellite tools instead.

OPTIONS

  -h
Show brief help and exit.

  -f file
Use a different token/secret configuration file.

  -v
Verbose. Increases the amount of logging to syslog. Add more for extra effect.

  -e program
Run program for every successful satellite connection. You must specify the full path to program. The following arguments are given:

token ip_address message

The program is run with stdin, stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null. This generic hook allows extending satellite to alert admins or whatever you need. If you intend to keep machines alive through this hook make sure you don't end up with multiple copies of your keepalive program running.

FILES
/usr/local/etc/satellite.db
/var/log/satellite

AUTHOR
Mark Pulford <mark@kyne.com.au>

SEE ALSO
satellite(8), satcfg(8), satwatch(8), inetd(8), tcpd(8), inetd.conf(8).