vela-geoip-helper.conf

vela-geoip-helper.conf — vela-geoip-helper(8) configuration file

Description

The vela-geoip-helper.conf file describes various global options controlling the behavior of vela-geoip-helper(8).

vela-geoip-helper(8) processes the lines of the file under [vela-geoip-helper] group, each line having the structure described below. Empty lines and lines beginning with '#' or ';' are comments and are ignored.

Structure

variable name = variable value

Each non-empty line specifies a variable name and its value separated by the equal sign ('='). The following variables are available:

VERBOSE

Set logging verbosity level. The default value is: 3.

LOG_SPEC

Set verbosity mask on a per category basis. The format of this value is described in vela-geoip-helper(8). The default value is: core.accounting:4.

NO_SYSLOG

Send log messages to the standard output instead of syslog. The default value is: 0 (False).

ACCOUNT_ID

Set the ACCOUNT_ID towards MaxMind servers.

ACCOUNT_ID

Set the ACCOUNT_ID towards MaxMind servers.

LICENSE_KEY

Set the LICENSE_KEY towards MaxMind servers.

EDITION_ID

Select the GeoIP database version to use. See MaxMind for further information on database editions.

The following values are supported:

  • GeoLite2-Country

  • GeoIP2-Country

UPDATE_INTERVAL

Sets the UPDATE_INTERVAL to check for GeoIP database updates in seconds. Default value is 3000. Checking if a database update is available does not contribute towards the download limits of MaxMind.

Files

The default location for vela-geoip-helper.conf is /etc/vela/vela-geoip-helper.conf.

Author

This manual page was written by the BalaSys Documentation Team <documentation@balasys.hu>.

Copyright

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