REALMCHK(1)

🦋 realmchk(1) — the DNSSEC-Tools realm checker 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to the realmchk(1) manual page — yes, it’s from User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it’s here to help you vibe check a whole set of DNSSEC-Tools realms files. no cap, it’s giving “small tool, very specific job” energy 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

realmchk — validate a set of DNSSEC-Tools realms files. literally that’s the whole main character job 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

  realmchk [options] <realm-files>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

realmchk checks the validity of a set of DNSSEC-Tools realms file. the results can be given in a summary or verbose form, or without any results printed at all. and the exit code? it is the count of errors found by realmchk in all the realms files checked. periodt 🔥

realmchk identifies the following error conditions:

• 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.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the following options are handled by realmchk, bestie:

• -quiet — give no output. silent treatment, but make it functional 🙈
• -verbose — provide extensive output describing the state of the realms files. she’s chatty and we love that 💬
• -Version — displays the version information for realmchk and the DNSSEC-Tools package.
• -help — displays a help message and exits.

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2012-2014 SPARTA, Inc. All rights reserved. See the COPYING file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Wayne Morrison, tewok@tislabs.com

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• dtrealms(8)
• lsrealm(8)
• realminit(8)
• Net::DNS::SEC::Tools::realm.pm(3)

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