debian man page for shibd

SHIBD(8)							    Shibboleth								  SHIBD(8)

NAME
       shibd - Shibboleth daemon

SYNOPSIS
       shibd [-tfFvh] [-c config] [-d prefix] [-p pidfile] [-w seconds] [-x catalog]

DESCRIPTION
       shibd is the Shibboleth daemon.	It handles attribute requests from the Apache Shibboleth module and should run in conjunction with it.

OPTIONS
       shibd takes the following command-line options.

       -c pathname
	   Specifies the pathname of shibd's configuration file. Defaults to /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml or the value of the SHIBSP_CONFIG
	   environment variable, if it is set.

       -d pathname
	   Installation prefix. Defaults to /usr.

       -F  Stay in the foreground.  Normally, shibd backgrounds itself after starting up.

       -f  Force removal of listener socket.

       -h  Prints out a brief summary of the shibboleth options.

       -p pathname
	   Specifies the pathname to use to write out the shibboleth PID file.

       -w seconds
	   Seconds to wait for the background shibd to start up before the foreground process returns.	If not set, the default value is three
	   seconds.

       -t  Validates the general correctness of the configuration. Not all problems can be detected this way, but the chance of successful startup
	   is high if the checking process does not log any errors.

       -v  Prints out the version string.

       -x pathname
	   Specifies the XML schema catalog to use. Defaults to /usr/share/xml/shibboleth/catalog.xml.

AUTHORS
       shibd is part of the Internet 2 Shibboleth project written by Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
       Copyright 2005, 2006 Internet2/MACE

       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License
       <http://www.apache.org/licenses>.

2.4.3								    2012-02-16								  SHIBD(8)