Console commands

Attention: most commands require root access!

Launching the program

The program can be run directly from the command line.:

kor-elf-shield start

If you want to run a program where the configuration path will differ from the default one:

kor-elf-shield --config=/my/path/configs/kor-elf-shield.toml start

Attention: if we run a program with a parameter --config, then this parameter will need to be specified in all console commands.

 

Stop the program

The program can be stopped from the command line:

kor-elf-shield stop

Attention: The program will stop and clear the nftables rules behind it.

 

Checking the program launch

To check and receive program startup data, you can run the command:

kor-elf-shield status

 

Find out the program version

To find out the program version, run the command:

kor-elf-shield --version

kor-elf-shield -v

 

Find out the list of commands

Run the command:

kor-elf-shield --help
kor-elf-shield -h

 

Reopen the file for logging

Run the command:

kor-elf-shield reopen_logger

 

Notifications

To view the number of notifications in the deferred queue, run the command:

kor-elf-shield notifications queue count

To clear the notification queue, run the command:

kor-elf-shield notifications queue clear

 

Blocking

To add an IP address to the blocked list, run the command:

kor-elf-shield block add 192.168.1.1 
kor-elf-shield block add 192.168.1.1 --seconds=600
kor-elf-shield block add 192.168.1.1 --port 80/tcp
kor-elf-shield block add 192.168.1.1 --port 80/tcp --seconds=60

If you want to unblock an IP address that was added via a command "kor-elf-shield block add ..." or that was blocked by the password protection system, run the command:

kor-elf-shield block delete 192.168.1.1

If you want to unblock all IP addresses that were added via the command "kor-elf-shield block add ..." or that were blocked by the password protection system, run the command:

kor-elf-shield clear

 

Getting IP address data

Run the command:

kor-elf-shield geoip info 192.168.1.1

To manually update the GeoIP database, run the command:

kor-elf-shield geoip refresh