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NAME

       keepalived. - keepalive demon

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/keepalived [-n] [-f keepalived.conf] [-d] [-h] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       The  keepalived	The keepalived server implements the vrrpd routing demon which enables routing failover for a pair (or set) of routers (or
       LVS directors) and the keepalived demon which sets up and does the health checking of virtual services in a Linux Virtual Servier.

OPTIONS

       --vrrp, -P
	      Only run the VRRP subsystem.

       --check, -C
	      Only run the healthchecker subsystem.

       --dont-release-vrrp, -V
	      leave (don't remove) VRRP VIPs & VROUTEs on daemon stop.

       --dont-release-ipvs, -I
	      Dont remove IPVS topology on daemon stop.

       --dont-fork, -n
	      Dont fork the daemon process.

       --use-file, -f keepalived.conf_file
	      Use the specified configuration file.

       --wdog-vrrp, -R
	      Define VRRP watchdog polling delay (default=5s)

       --wdog-check, -H
	      Define healthchecker's watchdog polling delay (default=5s)

       --dump-conf, -d
	      Dump the configuration data.

       --log-console, -l
	      Log messages to local console.

       --log-detail, -D
	      Detailed log messages (the default with the rc script provided).

       --log-facility, -S
	      0-7 Set syslog facility to LOG_LOCAL[0-7] (default=LOG_DAEMON)

       --help, -h
	      Display a short inlined help screen.

       --version, -v
	      Display the version number.

FILES

       /etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf

SEE ALSO

       keepalived.conf(5)

AUTHORS

       Joseph Mack
       from inspection of the output of keepalived --help from keepalived-1.1.4

								     Jan 2004							     keepalived(8)