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anubisadm

ANUBISADM(1)						      General Commands Manual						      ANUBISADM(1)

NAME

       anubisadm - interface for GNU Anubis database administration

SYNOPSIS

       anubisadm anubisadm [COMMAND] [OPTIONS] URL

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the anubisadm command.

       anubisadm is a program for GNU Anubis database manipulation.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below:

       COMMAND is one of:

       -c, --create
	      Creates the database.

       -l, --list
	      List the contents of an existing database.

       -a, --add
	      Add a new record.

       -m, --modify
	      Modify existing record.

       -r, --remove
	      Remove existing record.

       --version
	      Display program version number and exit.

       --help Display this help screen and exit.

       OPTION is one or more of:

       -i, --authid=STRING
	      Specify  the  authid  to	operate  upon.	This option is mandatory with --add, --modify and --remove.  It is optional when used with
	      --list.

       -p, --password=STRING
	      Specify the password for the authid. Mandatory with --add, --modify and --remove.

       -u, --user=STRING
	      Specify the system user name corresponding to the given authid. Optional for --add, --modify and --remove.

       -f, --rcfile=STRING
	      Specify the rc file to be used for this authid.  Optional for --add, --modify and --remove.

SEE ALSO

       anubis(1), anubisusr(1),

AUTHOR

       anubisadm was written by The Anubis Team (read the AUTHORS file).

       This manual page was prepared by Krzysztof Burghardt <krzysztof@burghardt.pl>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								    2007 Sep 09 						      ANUBISADM(1)

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