[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 118/727] Updated the /etc/sysconfig/arpwatch section.

Jaromir Hradilek jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 12:34:07 UTC 2010


commit 3a5bcbfae8268f0d941e30559eb36d44587e4263
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 22 17:45:47 2010 +0200

    Updated the /etc/sysconfig/arpwatch section.

 en-US/The_sysconfig_Directory.xml |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/The_sysconfig_Directory.xml b/en-US/The_sysconfig_Directory.xml
index f296ff0..ee3070f 100644
--- a/en-US/The_sysconfig_Directory.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_sysconfig_Directory.xml
@@ -39,8 +39,19 @@
         <secondary><filename>/etc/sysconfig/arpwatch</filename></secondary>
       </indexterm>
       <para>
-        The <filename>/etc/sysconfig/arpwatch</filename> file is used to pass arguments to the <command>arpwatch</command> daemon at boot time. The <command>arpwatch</command> daemon maintains a table of Ethernet MAC addresses and their IP address pairings. By default, this file sets the owner of the <command>arpwatch</command> process to the user <computeroutput>pcap</computeroutput> and sends any messages to the <command>root</command> mail queue. For more information regarding available parameters for this file, refer to the <command>arpwatch</command> man page.
+        The <filename>/etc/sysconfig/arpwatch</filename> file is used to pass arguments to the <command>arpwatch</command> daemon at boot time. By default, it contains the following option:
       </para>
+      <variablelist>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>OPTIONS=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Additional options to be passed to the <command>arpwatch</command> daemon. For example:
+            </para>
+            <screen>OPTIONS="-u arpwatch -e root -s 'root (Arpwatch)'"</screen>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+      </variablelist>
     </section>
     <section id="s2-sysconfig-authconfig">
       <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/authconfig</filename></title>


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