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c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <refentryinfo>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington </refentryinfo>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <refentrytitle><application>named-checkconf</application></refentrytitle>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <refname><application>named-checkconf</application></refname>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <refpurpose>named configuration file syntax checking tool</refpurpose>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington </refnamediv>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <refsynopsisdiv>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <cmdsynopsis>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <arg><option>-t <replaceable class="parameter">directory</replaceable></option></arg>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington </cmdsynopsis>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington </refsynopsisdiv>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <command>named-checkconf</command> checks the syntax, but not
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington the semantics, of a named configuration file.
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <variablelist>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <varlistentry>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <term>-t <replaceable class="parameter">directory</replaceable></term>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington chroot to <filename>directory</filename> so that include
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington directives in the configuration file are processed as if
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington run by a similarly chrooted named.
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington </varlistentry>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <varlistentry>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington The name of the configuration file to be checked. If not
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington specified, it defaults to <filename>/etc/named.conf</filename>.
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington </varlistentry>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington </variablelist>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <command>named-checkconf</command> returns an exit status of 1 if
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington errors were detected and 0 otherwise.
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <citerefentry>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington </citerefentry>,
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <citetitle>BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual</citetitle>.
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington <corpauthor>Internet Software Consortium</corpauthor>
c40265eba0c99708887d68e67901924065ba2514Brian Wellington - Local variables: