ossec-maild¶

The ossec-maild daemon sends OSSEC alerts via email. ossec-maild is started by ossec-control. Configuration for ossec-maild is handled in the ossec.conf. (see ossec.conf: Global options)

ossec-maild argument options¶

-c <config>¶

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

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

-D <dir>¶

Chroot to <dir>.

Default: /var/ossec

-d¶: Execute ossec-maild in debug mode. This option can be used multiple times to increase the verbosity of the debug messages.

-f¶: Run ossec-maild in the foreground.

-g <group>¶: Run ossec-maild as <group>.

-h¶: Display the help message.

-t¶: Test configuration.

-u <user>¶

Run ossec-maild as <user>.

Default: ossecm

-V¶: Version and license information.