zorp

zorp is the main Zorp binary. Starting it will start a new Zorp instance with the specified parameters.

Note

Note: prior to starting zorp, you have to correctly set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PYTHONPATH environment variables. zorpctl described in the section called zorpctl does this for you.

Synopsis

zorp [options]
	

Where options can be one of the arguments as specified in the following table.

Arguments

Table 2-3. Command line arguments of zorp

ArgumentShortDescription
--as <name>-aSpecifies the instance name of the instance to be run.
--caps <spec>-C Set the POSIX 1003.1e capability mask of the running process as specified by spec. If this option is not specified the default cap_net_bind_service,cap_net_admin=p is used. The exact syntax of the spec is described in the cap_from_text(3) manual page.
--gid <num>-gSet the gid of the running process to num.
--help-hDisplay summary of command line parameters.
--log-spec <spec>-s Set verbosity level on a per message category basis. spec is a filter specification as descibed in the section called Message tags in Chapter 3.
--log-tags-T Prepend the message tag of each message when sent to the log.
--no-caps-NZorp sets its own capability set to a default even if --caps is not specified. This behaviour can be overridden with this parameter.
--no-syslog-lDo not send messages to syslog, write them to stdout instead
--policy <file> -p Use file as the file containing the policy to use.
--uid <num>-uSet the uid of the running process to num.
--verbose=<num>-v<num> Set verbosity level to num. This is the default verbosity if the parameter --log-spec doesn't specify one for a given log tag.
--version-VDisplay version and compilation information.