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GeoIP.conf(5)

Configuration file for geoipupdate

NAME

GeoIP.conf - Configuration file for geoipupdate

SYNOPSIS

This file allows you to configure your geoipupdate program to download GeoIP and GeoLite databases.

DESCRIPTION

The file consists of one setting per line. Lines starting with # are comments and will not be processed. All setting keywords are case sensitive.

Required settings:

AccountID

Your MaxMind account ID. This was formerly known as UserId. This can be overridden at run time by either the GEOIPUPDATE_ACCOUNT_ID or the GEOIPUPDATE_ACCOUNT_ID_FILE environment variables.

LicenseKey

Your case-sensitive MaxMind license key. This can be overridden at run time by either the GEOIPUPDATE_LICENSE_KEY or GEOIPUPDATE_LICENSE_KEY_FILE environment variables.

EditionIDs

List of space-separated database edition IDs. Edition IDs may consist of letters, digits, and dashes. For example, GeoIP2-City would download the GeoIP City database (GeoIP2-City). This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_EDITION_IDS environment variable. Note: this was formerly called ProductIds.

Optional settings:

DatabaseDirectory

The directory to store the database files. If not set, the default is /var/lib/GeoIP. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_DB_DIR environment variable or the -d command line argument.

Host

The host name of the server to use. The default is https://updates.maxmind.com. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_HOST environment variable.

Proxy

The proxy host name or IP address. You may optionally specify a port number, e.g., 127.0.0.1:8888. If no port number is specified, 1080 will be used. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_PROXY environment variable.

ProxyUserPassword

The proxy user name and password, separated by a colon. For instance, username:password. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_PROXY_USER_PASSWORD environment variable.

PreserveFileTimes

Whether to preserve modification times of files downloaded from the server. This option is either 0 or 1. The default is 0. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_PRESERVE_FILE_TIMES environment variable.

LockFile

The lock file to use. This ensures only one geoipupdate process can run at a time. Note: Once created, this lockfile is not removed from the filesystem. The default is .geoipupdate.lock under the DatabaseDirectory. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_LOCK_FILE environment variable.

RetryFor

The amount of time to retry for when errors during HTTP transactions are encountered. It can be specified as a (possibly fractional) decimal number followed by a unit suffix. Valid time units are ns, us (or µs), ms, s, m, h. The default is 5m (5 minutes). This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_RETRY_FOR environment variable.

Parallelism

The maximum number of parallel database downloads. The default is 1, which means that databases will be downloaded sequentially. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_PARALLELISM environment variable or the --parallelism command line argument.

Deprecated settings:

The following are deprecated and will be ignored if present:

Protocol

SkipPeerVerification

SkipHostnameVerification

SEE ALSO

geoipupdate(1)

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