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Linux Commands for checking errors in server config files
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07-01-2009, 04:58 PM
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Linux Commands for checking errors in server config files
Hi all,
This is a question to just enhance knowledge on Linux server administration.In dns we have some error checking commands like named-checkzone and named-checkconf to check any syntax errors in server like wise we have following command for different servers vsftpd check for syntax error Code:
vsftpd Code:
named-checkconf named-checkzone Code:
testparm Code:
httpd -t please post if you know other commands which will be used for error checking of server config files. Thanks, Surendra. Last edited by nixcraft; 07-01-2009 at 05:11 PM. Reason: Added [code] tags 
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07-01-2009, 05:09 PM
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Postfix - Warn about bad directory/file ownership or permissions, and create missing directories
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postfix check Code:
postfix -vv Code:
sshd -t Code:
lighttpd -t -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf Code:
nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf -t Code:
httpd -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS Code:
pfctl -nf /etc/pf.conf Code:
tcpdchk tcpdchk -v
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Last edited by nixcraft; 07-01-2009 at 05:17 PM.
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07-01-2009, 05:39 PM
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Thanks very much nixcraft
what about squid and sendmail? any commands are there?
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07-01-2009, 07:33 PM
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Squid Check For Errors
For Squid proxy use:
Code:
squid -k check squid -k parse
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rockdalinux (07-02-2009)
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07-01-2009, 07:57 PM
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Thank you very much for your inputs
it helps me to troubleshoot more on servers
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07-02-2009, 03:04 PM
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It is really sad that iptables lacks syntax checking option, nice list though...
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