donutsd(1)

1DONUTSD(1)            User Contributed Perl Documentation           DONUTSD(1)
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NAME

6       donutsd - Run the donuts syntax checker periodically and report the
7       results to an administrator
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SYNOPSIS

10         donutsd [-z FREQ] [-t TMPDIR] [-f FROM] [-s SMTPSERVER] [-a DONUTSARGS]
11                 [-x] [-v] [-i zonelistfile] [ZONEFILE ZONENAME ZONECONTACT]
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DESCRIPTION

14       donutsd runs donuts on a set of zone files every so often (the fre‐
15       quency is specified by the -z flag which defaults to 24 hours) and
16       watches for changes in the results.  These changes may be due to the
17       time-sensitive nature of DNSSEC-related records (e.g., RRSIG validity
18       periods) or because parent/child relationships have changed.  If any
19       changes have occurred in the output since the last run of donuts on a
20       particular zone file, the results are emailed to the specified zone
21       administrator's email address.
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OPTIONS

24       -v  Turns on more verbose output.
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26       -o  Run once and quit, as opposed to sleeping or re-running forever.
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28       -a ARGUMENTS
29           Passes arguments to command line arguments of donuts runs.
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31       -z TIME
32           Sleeps TIME seconds between calls to donuts.
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34       -e ADDRESS
35           Mail ADDRESS with a summary of the results from all the files.
36           These are the last few lines of the donuts output for each zone
37           that details the number of errors found.
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39       -s SMTPSERVER
40           When sending mail, send it to the SMTPSERVER specified.  The
41           default is localhost.
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43       -f FROMADDR
44           When sending mail, use FROMADDR for the From: address.
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46       -x  Send the diff output in the email message as well as the donuts
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49       -t TMPDIR
50           Store temporary files in TMPDIR.
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52       -i INPUTZONES
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ZONE ARGUMENTS

56       The rest of the arguments to donutsd should be triplets of the follow‐
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59       ZONEFILE
60           The zone file to examine.
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63           The zonename that file is supposed to be defining.
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65       ZONECONTACT
66           An email address of the zone administrator (or a comma-separated
67           list of addresses.)  The results will be sent to this email
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70       Additionally, instead of listing all the zones you wish to monitor on
71       the command line, you can use the -i flag which specifies a file to be
72       read listing the TRIPLES instead.  Each line in this file should con‐
73       tain one triple with white-space separating the arguments.
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77          db.zonefile1.com   zone1.com   admin@zone1.com
78          db.zonefile2.com   zone2.com   admin@zone2.com,admin2@zone2.com
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80       For even more control, you can specify an XML file (whose name must end
81       in .xml) that describes the same information.  This also allows for
82       per-zone customization of the donuts arguments.  The XML::Smart Perl
83       module must be installed in order to use this feature.
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85        <donutsd>
86          <zones>
87           <zone>
88             <file>db.example.com</file>
89             <name>example.com</name>
90             <contact>admin@example.com</contact>
91             <!-- this is not a signed zone therefore we'll
92                  add these args so we don't display DNSSEC errors -->
93             <donutsargs>-i DNSSEC</donutsargs>
94           </zone>
95          </zones>
96        </donutsd>
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98       The donutsd tree may also contain a configs section where command-line
99       flags can be specified:
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101        <donutsd>
102         <configs>
103          <config><flag>a</flag><value>--live --level 8</value></config>
104          <config><flag>e</flag><value>wes@example.com</value></config>
105         </configs>
106         <zones>
107          ...
108         </zones>
109        </donutsd>
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111       Real command line flags will be used in preference to those specified
112       in the .xml file, however.
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EXAMPLE

115         donutsd -a "--live --level 8" -f root@somewhere.com \
116            db.example.com example.com admin@example.com
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COPYRIGHT

119       Copyright 2005-2007 SPARTA, Inc.  All rights reserved.  See the COPYING
120       file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details.
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AUTHOR

123       Wes Hardaker <hardaker@users.sourceforge.net>
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