NAME¶

validateconf - This utility can be used to validate the tsocks.conf configuration file.

SYNOPSIS¶

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

DESCRIPTION¶

validateconf can be used to verify the configuration file. It checks the format of the file and also the contents for errors. Having read the file it dumps the configuration to the screen in a formatted, readable manner. This can be extremely useful in debugging problems.

validateconf can read a configuration file from a location other than the location specified at compile time with the -f <filename> command line option.

Normally validateconf simply dumps the configuration read to the screen (in a nicely readable format), however it also has a useful 'test' mode. When passed a hostname/ip on the command line like -t <hostname/ip>, validateconf determines which of the SOCKS servers specified in the configuration file would be used by tsocks to access the specified host.

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.