NAME¶

certwatch - generate SSL certificate expiry warnings

SYNOPSIS¶

certwatch [OPTION...] filename

DESCRIPTION¶

The certwatch program is used to issue warning mail when an SSL certificate is about to expire.

The program has two modes of operation: normal mode and quiet mode. In normal mode, the certificate given by the filename argument is examined, and a warning email is issued to standard output if the certificate is outside its validity period, or approaching expiry. If the certificate cannot be found, or any errors occur whilst parsing the certificate, the certificate is ignored and no output is produced. In quiet mode, no output is given, but the exit status can still be used.

The certificate can be specified by its nickname or by a path to the containing file.

OPTIONS¶

--quiet, -q

--period days, -p days

--address address, -a address

--directory cert-directory, -d cert-directory

DIAGNOSTICS¶

The exit code indicates the state of the certificate:

0

1

NOTES¶

The certwatch program is run daily by crond from the file /etc/cron.daily/certwatch to generate warning mail concerning the imminent expiry of SSL certificates configured for use in the Apache HTTP server. These warnings can be disabled by adding the line: NOCERTWATCH=yes to the file /etc/sysconfig/httpd. Additional options to pass to certwatch can be specified in that file in the CERTWATCH_OPTS environment variable.

FILES¶

/etc/cron.daily/certwatch, /etc/sysconfig/httpd

SEE ALSO¶

genkey(1)