dbprocs(8)

dbprocs8

Start or stop ovdb housekeeping processes

Synopsys

dbprocs start

dbprocs stop

Overview

dbprocs is a script that starts or stops housekeeping processes needed by ovdb. These are: db_checkpoint and db_deadlock, which are assumed to be in $BERKELEY_DB_BINDIR. The dbprocs script also periodically removes old log files.

This command is normally called automatically by rc.news(8).

History

Written by Heath Kehoe <[email protected]> for InterNetNews.

From inn2 2.3.2-3 in Debian 3.0 (Woody). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.