VALIDATECONF(1)

💖 NAME 💖

validateconf — bestie's little helper that validates your tsocks.conf configuration file. no cap. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

validateconf [-f config file] [-t hostnameip[:port]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so validateconf is literally here to check your config file for you. it looks at the format of the file, and it also checks the contents for errors. two vibe checks in one, obsessed. 💅

and then — the moment you've been waiting for — once it's read the file, it dumps the configuration to the screen in a formatted, readable way. it's giving clean, it's giving legible, and honestly it is extremely useful when you're debugging problems. like, main character energy for troubleshooting. 🔥

🌸 choosing a different config file 🌸

by default validateconf reads the config from wherever was specified at compile time. but if you want a different location, you can pass the -f <filename> command line option and it'll read from there instead. queen behaviour. 👑

🧚 test mode 🧚

normally validateconf just dumps the configuration it read to the screen (in that nicely readable format we talked about). but bestie, there's also a super useful 'test' mode. 👀

when you pass it a hostname/ip on the command line, like -t <hostname/ip>, validateconf figures out which of the SOCKS servers specified in the configuration file would be used by tsocks to access that specified host. yes, it's telling you the tea about your routing. slay. ⭐

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• tsocks.conf(5)
• tsocks(8)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manpage was created by gustavo panizzo <gfa@zumbi.com.ar> for the Debian package of tsocks. it may be used by others. iconic of him fr fr. 🫶

🎀 and that's the whole page, bestie — straight out of the General Commands Manual, section 1, filed under VALIDATECONF in the classic all-caps footer, exactly like the original shipped it. 💖 ✨ 🦋