.TH QSSIGN 1 "December 2018" "mod_qos utilities 11.61" "qssign man page"

.SH NAME
qssign \- an utility to sign and verify the integrity of log data. 
.SH SYNOPSIS
qssign \-s|S <secret> [\-e] [\-v] [\-u <name>] [\-f <regex>] [\-a 'sha1'|'sha256'] 
.SH DESCRIPTION
qssign is a log data integrity check tool. It reads log data from stdin (pipe) and writes the data to stdout adding a sequence number and signatur to ever log line. 
.SH OPTIONS
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\-s <secret> 
Passphrase used to calculate signature. 
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\-S <program> 
Specifies a program which writes the passphrase to stdout. 
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\-e 
Writes start/end marker when starting/stopping data signing. 
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\-v 
Verification mode checking the integrity of signed data. 
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\-u <name> 
Becomes another user, e.g. www\-data. 
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\-f <regex> 
Filter pattern (case sensitive regular expression) for messages which do not need to be signed. 
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\-a 'sha1'|'sha256' 
Specifes the algorithm to use. Default is sha1. 
.SH EXAMPLE
Sign:

 TransferLog "|/usr/bin/qssign \-s password \-e |/usr/bin/qsrotate \-o /var/log/apache/access.log"


Verify:

 cat access.log | qssign \-s password \-v

.SH SEE ALSO
qsdt(1), qsexec(1), qsfilter2(1), qsgeo(1), qsgrep(1), qshead(1), qslog(1), qslogger(1), qspng(1), qsre(1), qsrespeed(1), qsrotate(1), qstail(1)
.SH AUTHOR
Pascal Buchbinder, http://mod-qos.sourceforge.net/