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Manpage of IPSEC
IPSEC
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 21 Nov 2001
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NAME
ipsec - invoke IPsec utilities
SYNOPSIS
ipsec
command [ argument ...]
ipsec
--help
ipsec
--version
ipsec
--versioncode
ipsec
--copyright
ipsec
--directory
DESCRIPTION
Ipsec
invokes any of several utilities involved in controlling the IPsec
encryption/authentication system,
running the specified
command
with the specified
arguments
as if it had been invoked directly.
This largely eliminates possible name collisions with other software,
and also permits some centralized services.
In particular,
ipsec
supplies the invoked
command
with a suitable PATH environment variable,
and also provides IPSEC_DIR and IPSEC_VERSION environment variables,
containing respectively
the full pathname of the directory where the IPsec utilities are stored
and the IPsec version number.
ipsec --help
lists the available commands.
Most have their own manual pages, e.g.
ipsec_auto(8)
for
auto.
ipsec --version
outputs version information about Linux FreeS/WAN.
A version code of the form ``Uxxx/Kyyy''
indicates that the user-level utilities are version xxx
but the kernel portion appears to be version yyy
(this form is used only if the two disagree).
ipsec --versioncode
outputs just the version code,
with none of
--version's
supporting information,
for use by scripts.
ipsec --copyright
supplies boring copyright details.
ipsec --directory
reports where
ipsec
thinks the IPsec utilities are stored.
FILES
/usr/local/lib/ipsec usual utilities directory
SEE ALSO
ipsec.conf(5), ipsec.secrets(5),
ipsec_auto(8),
ipsec_barf(8),
ipsec_setup(8),
ipsec_showdefaults(8),
ipsec_showhostkey(8)
HTML documentation shipped with the release, starting with
doc/index.html.
<http://www.freeswan.org/doc.html>
may also be of use.
HISTORY
Written for Linux FreeS/WAN
<http://www.freeswan.org>
by Henry Spencer.
BUGS
The provision of centralized services,
while convenient,
does compromise the original concept of making the utilities
invocable directly as well as via
ipsec.
Index
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- SEE ALSO
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