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scrollkeeper-rebuilddb

SCROLLKEEPER-REBUILDDB(8)				      System Manager's Manual					 SCROLLKEEPER-REBUILDDB(8)

NAME

       scrollkeeper-rebuilddb - rebuild the scrollkeeper document catalog database

SYNOPSIS

       scrollkeeper-rebuilddb [-p path ] [-v] [-q]

DESCRIPTION

       This rebuilds the ScrollKeeper database from the original OMF metadata files and documents.  Under normal situations, this tool is not nec-
       essary.	It is useful however if the database becomes corrupt, which could be caused by interruption of ScrollKeeper during  an	update	of
       the database.

       Errors and warnings are logged to /var/log/scrollkeeper.log.

OPTIONS

       -p path
	      Use path as the ScrollKeeper database directory.

       -v     Verbose.	Show warnings and error messages in addition to logging them to /var/log/scrollkeeper.log.

       -q     Run  in  quiet  mode, suppressing output of all but the most serious warning and error messages to STDOUT.  Note that most output to
	      the log file will be unchanged.

FILES

       /var/lib/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_docs
       /var/lib/scrollkeeper/TOC/<docnumber>
       /var/lib/scrollkeeper/<locale>/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
       /var/lib/scrollkeeper/<locale>/scrollkeeper_extended_cl.xml
       /var/log/scrollkeeper.log

AUTHOR

       Laszlo Kovacs   <laszlo.kovacs@sun.com>
       Dan Mueth       <d-mueth@uchicago.edu>

SEE ALSO

       scrollkeeper-config(1),	scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid(1),  scrollkeeper.conf(5),  scrollkeeper(7),	scrollkeeper-preinstall(8),  scrollkeeper-
       update(8)

scrollkeeper							    Dec 5, 2001 					 SCROLLKEEPER-REBUILDDB(8)

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Strip leading and trailing spaces only in a shell variable with embedded spaces

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Triming spaces for any variable

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