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MAKEDBZ(8)


NAME

  makedbz - rebuild dbz files


SYNOPSIS

  makedbz [ -f filename ] [ -i ] [ -o ] [ -s size ]


DESCRIPTION

  Makedbz rebuilds dbz(3) database.  The default name of the text file is
  <pathdb in inn.conf>/history; to specify a different name, use the ``-f''
  flag.


OPTIONS

  -f   If the ``-f'' flag is used, then the database files are named file.dir
       , file.index and file.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'' flag 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   The program 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.	 (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.  This is
  revision 1.1, dated 1999/08/27.


SEE ALSO

  dbz(3), history(5), inn.conf(5).

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