Man page of QSSIGN

# QSSIGN

Section: qssign man page (1)
Updated: January 2014
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## NAME

qssign - an utility to sign and verify the integrity of log data.

## SYNOPSIS

qssign -s|S <secret> [-e] [-v]

## DESCRIPTION

qssign is a log data integrity check tool. It reads log data from stdin (pipe) and writes the signed data to stdout.

## OPTIONS

-s <secret>
  Passphrase used to calculate signature.
-S <program>
  Specifies a program which writes the passphrase to stdout.
-e
  Writes end marker when stopping data signing.
-v
  Verification mode checking the integrity of signed data.

## EXAMPLE

Sign:

TransferLog "|/bin/qssign -s password -e |/bin/qsrotate -o /var/log/apache/access_log"

Verify:

cat access_log | qssign -s password -v

## SEE ALSO

qsexec(1), qsfilter2(1), qsgeo(1), qsgrep(1), qshead(1), qslog(1), qslogger(1), qspng(1), qsrotate(1), qstail(1)

## AUTHOR

Pascal Buchbinder, http://opensource.adnovum.ch/mod_qos/

## Index

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EXAMPLE
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