DTCK(1)

✨ DTCK(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to dtck — it's a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, and it's here to be the vibe-check queen of your DNSSEC-Tools data files 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dtck — check the DNSSEC-Tools data files for sanity. yes, sanity. someone has to do it and it's gonna be her 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dtck [options] [dtck_config_file]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so dtck goes through your DNSSEC-Tools data files and figures out whether the entries are actually valid, no cap. she checks DNSSEC-Tools configuration files, rollrec files, and keyrec files.

and here's the thing — she does not do the actual checking herself 😭. she's more like the group-chat organizer: she runs checking programs that are specific to each type of data file, and lets them do the work. delegation is self-care, periodt.

a dtck configuration file gets consulted to figure out which files to check. that file is literally just a list of the DNSSEC-Tools data files and their types. and if you don't hand dtck a configuration file on the command line? she'll only check the DNSSEC-Tools configuration file. which is exactly the same as running dtconfchk directly. iykyk 💅

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🎀 DTCK CONFIGURATION FILE 🎀

a dtck configuration file is just a list of the files that dtck should check. apart from comments, every single line looks like this:

keyword file directory

• keyword is one of "config", "rollrec", or "keyrec" — pick your fighter ⭐
• file is the pathname of the file to be checked
• directory is the name of the directory that holds file — and it's optional, she's flexible like that

the dtck configuration file holds these types of records:

• config — these lines define the DNSSEC-Tools configuration files that will be checked. the dtconfchk program will be used to verify these files. 👑
• rollrec — these lines define the rollrec files that will be checked. the rollchk program will be used to verify these files. 🌈
• keyrec — these lines define the keyrec files that will be checked. the krfcheck program will be used to verify these files. 🔥
• comments — any lines starting with an octothorpe (#) are comment lines and are ignored. no notes, they simply do not exist 🙈

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

dtck takes two types of options, bestie. listen up:

• options of the first type are handled directly by dtck — she controls her own output and processing, main character energy
• options of the second type get passed to the file-checking programs and are not further handled by dtck. she hands them off and walks away 🚶‍♀️

✨ Options Handled by dtck ✨

• -defcon — this option directs dtck to add the default DNSSEC-Tools configuration file to the list of configuration files to be checked. gotta have the default on the roster 💖
• -list — the names of the files will be listed as they are checked. roll call, but make it cute 🎀
• -pretty — clarifying output is added to the output from dtck and the file-checking programs. yes she's giving ✨aesthetic✨
• -help — display a usage message. the classic "bestie help me" button 🫶

🌸 Options Not Handled by dtck 🌸

• -count — the file-checking programs will display a final error count. tally time 🔢
• -quiet — no output will be given by the file-checking program. silent treatment, but productive 💀
• -verbose — verbose output will be given by the file-checking program. she's gonna say EVERYTHING 😭
• -Version — displays the version information for dtck and the DNSSEC-Tools package. era check ⭐

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright 2007-2014 SPARTA, Inc. All rights reserved. See the COPYING file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details.

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Wayne Morrison, tewok@tislabs.com

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🦄 SEE ALSO 🦄

• dtconfchk(8), krfcheck(8), rollchk(8)
• dnssec-tools.conf(5), keyrec(5), rollrec(5)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this lil manpage is brought to you by perl v5.42.0 and dated 2025-07-23 — go check those files, you got this 💖✨