ossec-agentd

ossec-agentd is the client side daemon that communicates with the server. It runs as ossec and is chrooted to /var/ossec by default.

ossec-agentd argument options

-c <config>

Run ossec-agentd using <config> as the configuration file.

Default: /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf

-D <dir>

Chroot to <dir>.

Default: /var/ossec

-d

Run in debug mode. This option can be used multiple times to increase the verbosity of the debug messages.

-f

Run ossec-agentd in the foreground.

-g <group>

Run ossec-agentd as <group>.

-h

Display the help message.

-t

Test configuration.

-u <user>

Run ossec-agentd as <user>.

Default: ossecm

-V

Version and license information.

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