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CASCADED

NAME
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NAME

cascaded - DNSSEC signer

SYNOPSIS

cascaded [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

cascaded is the daemon process of Cascade, a friendly DNSSEC signing solution.

For more information about Cascade, please refer to the Cascade documentation at https://cascade.docs.nlnetlabs.nl .

OPTIONS

--check-config

Check the configuration and exit.

--state <PATH>

The global state file to use.

-c, --config <PATH>

The configuration file to load. Defaults to /etc/cascade/config.toml .

--log-level <LEVEL>

The minimum severity of messages to log [possible values: trace, debug, info, warning, error, critical].

Defaults to info , unless set in the config file.

-l, --log <TARGET>

Where logs should be written to [possible values: stdout, stderr, file:<PATH>, syslog].

Changed in version 0.1.0-alpha2: Added types stdout and stderr . Type file with values /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr can still be used but may not work properly in some cases, e.g. when running under systemd.
-d, --daemonize

Whether Cascade should fork on startup.

-h, --help

Print the help text (short summary with -h , long help with --help ).

-V, --version

Print version.

FILES

/etc/cascade/config.toml

Default Cascade config file

/etc/cascade/policies

Default policies directory

/var/lib/cascade/zone-state

Default zone state directory

/var/lib/cascade/tsig-keys.db

Default file for stored TSIG keys

/var/lib/cascade/keys

Default directory for on-disk zone keys

/usr/libexec/cascade/cascade-dnst

Default (Cascade-specific) dnst binary for use by Cascade

/var/lib/cascade/kmip/credentials.db

Default file for KMIP credentials

/var/lib/cascade/kmip

Default directory for KMIP state files

SEE ALSO

https://cascade.docs.nlnetlabs.nl

Cascade online documentation

cascade (1)

Cascade CLI

cascaded-config.toml (5)

Configuration File Format

cascaded-policy.toml (5)

Policy File Format

AUTHOR

NLnet Labs <cascade@nlnetlabs.nl>

COPYRIGHT

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