Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Conﬁguring gated

Starting gated

1. Set the environment variable GATED to 1 in the ﬁle

/etc/rc.config.d/netconf. This causes gated to start

automatically whenever the system is booted.

2. Reboot your system, or issue the following command to run the gated

startup script:

/sbin/init.d/gated start

Command line arguments for starting gated may be speciﬁed with the

GATED_ARGS environment variable in the ﬁle

/etc/rc.config.d/netconf. Table 8-5 lists the commonly used

command line options for gated.

Table 8-5 Command Line Options for gated

For more information about the options that you can specify on the

command line, type man 1M gated at the HP-UX prompt.

To Find Out if gated is Running

Issue the following command to ﬁnd out if gated is running:

Flag Effect

-t When used alone, -t causes gated to log all error messages and route

changes. It turns on the general trace option automatically. When -t is

followed by one or more trace options, only those options are turned on. (See

“Specifying Tracing Options” on page 287.) Multiple trace options are

separated by commas. The -t ﬂag always must immediately precede the

other ﬂags.

-C Speciﬁes that the conﬁguration ﬁle will be parsed for syntax errors, then

gated will exit.

-c Speciﬁes that the conﬁguration ﬁle will be parsed for syntax errors, and then

gated will exit. A dump ﬁle is created if there are no errors. Only the trace

option general is logged. See the trace options that are speciﬁed in the

conﬁguration ﬁle.

-n Speciﬁes that gated will not modify the kernel’s routing tables.