- **Type:** Boolean (`true`, `false`)
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
+- **Default:** `false`
Skip the repository cache update?
- **Type:** Boolean (`true`, `false`)
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
+- **Default:** `false`
Send process to the background?
- **Type:** Integer
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
-- **Default:** 0
+- **Default:** 1
- **Range:** [0, [`UINT_MAX`](http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html)]
Number of additional HTTP requests after a failed attempt.
- **Type:** Integer
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
-- **Default:** 5
+- **Default:** 4
- **Range:** [0, [`UINT_MAX`](http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html)]
Period of time (in seconds) to wait between each retry to request an HTTP URI.
- **Type:** String (Path to directory)
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
+- **Default:** `NULL` (disabled)
_**All requests are made using HTTPS, verifying the peer and the certificate name vs host**_
- **Type:** String (Path to file)
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
+- **Default:** `NULL` (disabled)
File where the ROAs (found during each validation run) will be stored. See [`--output.format`](#--outputformat).
- **Type:** String (Path to file)
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
+- **Default:** `NULL` (disabled)
>  BGPsec certificate validation has been disabled in version 1.5.2 because of [this bug](https://github.com/NICMx/FORT-validator/issues/58).
- **Type:** Integer
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
-- **Default:** 0
+- **Default:** 1
- **Range:** [0, [`UINT_MAX`](http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html)]
Maximum number of retries whenever there's an error executing an RSYNC.
- **Type:** Integer
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
-- **Default:** 5
+- **Default:** 4
- **Range:** [0, [`UINT_MAX`](http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html)]
Period of time (in seconds) to wait between each retry to execute an RSYNC.
- **Type:** String (Path to file)
- **Availability:** `argv` only
+- **Default:** `NULL` (disabled)
Path to a JSON file from which additional configuration will be read.
- **Type:** Integer
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
-- **Default:** 43200 (12 hours)
- **Range:** [0, [`UINT_MAX`](http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html)]
>  This argument **is DEPRECATED**.
- **Type:** Enumeration (`strict`, `root`, `root-except-ta`)
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
-- **Default:** `root-except-ta`
>  This argument **is DEPRECATED**.
- **Type:** String array
- **Availability:** JSON only
-- **Default:** `[ "--times", "--contimeout=20", "--timeout=15", "--max-size=20MB", "--dirs", "$REMOTE", "$LOCAL" ]`
>  This argument **is DEPRECATED**.
- **Type:** Integer
- **Availability:** `argv` and JSON
-- **Default:** 5
- **Range:** [1, 100]
>  This argument **is DEPRECATED**.