MAKEDBZ(8)
NAME
makedbz - Rebuild dbz files
SYNOPSIS
makedbz [-io] [-f filename] [-s size]
DESCRIPTION
makedbz rebuilds dbz(3) database. The default name of the text file is pathdb/history; to specify a different name, use the -f flag.
OPTIONS
- -f filename
- If the -f flag is used, then the database files are named
"filename.dir", "filename.index", and "filename.hash". If the -f flag is not used, then a temporary link to the name "history.n" is made and the database files are written as "history.n.index" ,
"history.n.hash" and "history.n.dir". - -i To ignore the old database, use the -i flag. Using the -o or -s
- flags implies the -i flag.
- -o If the -o flag is used, then the link is not made and any existing
- history files are overwritten. If the old database exists, makedbz will use it to determine the size of the new database.
- -s size
- makedbz will also ignore any old database if the -s flag is used to
specify the approximate number of entries in the new database.
Accurately specifying the size is an optimization that will create a more efficient database. Size is measured in key-value pairs
(i.e. lines). (The size should be the estimated eventual size of
the file, typically the size of the old file.) - For more information, see the discussion of dbzfresh and dbzsize in dbz(3).
HISTORY
Written by Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou@nec.co.jp> for InterNetNews.
Converted to POD by Julien Elie.
$Id: makedbz.pod 8584 2009-08-20 21:54:07Z iulius $