---
name: "blinkenlights.conf"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "dnssec-tools"
version: "1.13-1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/blinkenlights.conf"
---

# blinkenlights.conf(5)

## NAME

```
    blinkenlights.conf - Configuration file for the DNSSEC-Tools B<blinkenlights>
program.
```

## DESCRIPTION

This file contains configuration information for the DNSSEC-Tools **blinkenlights** program.  These configuration data are used as default values The **conf.pm** module is used to parse this configuration file.

A line in this file contains either a comment or a configuration entry.  Comment lines start with either a '#' character or a ';' character. Comment lines and blank lines are ignored by the DNSSEC-Tools programs.

Configuration entries are in a *keyword/value* format.  The keyword is a character string that contains no whitespace.  The value is a tokenized list of the remaining character groups, with each token separated by a single space.

True/false flags must be given a true or false value. True values are:  1, "yes", "on". False values are:  0, "no", "off".

## Configuration Records

The following records are recognized by **blinkenlights**.

- colors

  Toggle indicating whether or not to use different background colors for **blinkenlights** zone stripes. If on, different colors will be used. If off, the *skipcolor* value will be used.

- fontsize

  The font size used to display information in the **blinkenlights** window. If this is not specified, the default font size is 18.

- modify

  Toggle indicating whether or not to allow access to **blinkenlights**' zone-modification commands.  These commands are the GUI's front-end to some of **rollerd**'s commands. If on, the commands are enabled. If off, the commands are disabled.

- shading

  Toggle indicating whether or not to use color shading in **blinkenlights**' status column. If on, shading is enabled. If off, shading is disabled.

- showskip

  Toggle indicating whether or not to display skipped zones in **blinkenlights**' window. If on, skipped zones are displayed. If off, skipped zones are not displayed.

- skipcolor

  The background color to use in displaying skipped zones. If this is not specified, the default color is grey.

## Example File

The following is an example **blinkenlights.conf** configuration file.

```
    #
    # DNSSEC-Tools configuration file for blinkenlights
    #
    #   Recognized values:
    #           colors          use different colors for stripes (toggle)
    #           fontsize        size of demo output font
    #           modify          allow modification commands (toggle)
    #           shading         shade the status columns (toggle)
    #           showskip        show skipped zones (toggle)
    #           skipcolor       color to use for skip records
    fontsize            24
    modify              no
    colors              on
    skipcolor           orange
    showskip            1
    shading             yes
```

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2006-2012 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

***blinkenlights*****(8)**, ***rollerd*****(8)**

***Net::DNS::SEC::Tools::conf.pm*****(3)**