honeydctl1

Usage

Overview

Honeydctl is used to connect to Honeyd's management console.

The options are as follows:

-v

Tells honeydctl to output all conversations.

-t seconds

Specifies the timeout in seconds when connection to Honeyd.

Using honeydctl, it is possible to dynamically configure Honeyd. All commands that can be specified in a regular Honeyd configuration file, may also be specified on the console. The tool understand the following additional commands:

list [template]

Outputs a list of all configured templates. If a template is specified as argument, specific information about the template is returned. The command also matches templates based on wild cards similar to file system globbing.

Files

/var/run/honeyd.pid

The default socket that honeydctl connects to.