REALMCHK(1)

✨ REALMCHK(1) ✨

User Contributed Perl Documentation 💖 bestie we are in the user contributed part of the manual, it's giving community-maintained realness

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🌸 NAME 🌸

realmchk — the girl whose whole job is validating a set of DNSSEC-Tools realms files 💅✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

realmchk [options] <realm-files>

like. you hand her the files. she tells you if they're valid. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so realmchk checks the validity of a set of DNSSEC-Tools realms file. no cap. 🧚

the results can come at you in a summary form, a verbose form, or with no results printed at all — her choice, her slay. and the exit code?? the exit code is the count of errors found by realmchk in all the realms files checked. so if she found 3 problems you get a 3. she's literally counting her opps. periodt. 💀

here's the error conditions she identifies, bestie, memorize these:

• the state is either "active" or "inactive". 👑
• the config directory is a writable, searchable directory.
• the state directory is a writable, searchable directory..
• the realm directory is a writable, searchable directory.
• the rollrec file is a writable regular file.
• if the user is defined, it is a valid user.

(and yes that third bullet really does have two periods in the original. iykyk. we don't fix, we report. 💅)

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

here's everything realmchk handles, one by one, no skips, no cuts:

• -quiet — give no output. she says nothing. iconic silent treatment. 🤫
• -verbose — provide extensive output describing the state of the realms files. she will yap. lovingly. in detail. 🗣️💖
• -Version — displays the version information for realmchk and the DNSSEC-Tools package. she's telling you who she is and who her family is. 🌈
• -help — displays a help message and exits. she's helping!! then she's leaving!! 🫶

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright 2012-2014 SPARTA, Inc. All rights reserved. see the COPYING file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details. 🎀 (yes bestie, the lawyers were here too, and they ate.)

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🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Wayne Morrison, tewok@tislabs.com — the main character who wrote this. we love him. 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• dtrealms(8)
• lsrealm(8)
• realminit(8)

and also:

• Net::DNS::SEC::Tools::realm.pm(3)

go read those next, bestie, the lore goes deep 📚✨

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and that's the whole page!! 🌸 this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-23, and honestly?? she's still relevant. still validating. still that girl. mwah 💋💖🫶