NAME¶
db5.3_verify - Verifies the structure databases
SYNOPSIS¶
db5.3_verify [-NoqV] [-h home] [-P password] file ...
DESCRIPTION¶
The db5.3_verify utility verifies the structure of one or more files and the
databases they contain.
OPTIONS¶
- -h
- Specify a home directory for the database environment; by
default, the current working directory is used.
- -o
- Skip the database checks for btree and duplicate sort order
and for hashing.
If the file being verified contains databases with non-default comparison or
hashing configurations, calling the db5.3_verify utility without the
-o flag will usually return failure. The -o flag causes
db5.3_verify to ignore database sort or hash ordering and allows
db5.3_verify to be used on these files. To fully verify these files,
verify them explicitly using the DB->verify method, after configuring
the correct comparison or hashing functions.
- -N
- Do not acquire shared region mutexes while running. Other
problems, such as potentially fatal errors in Berkeley DB, will be ignored
as well. This option is intended only for debugging errors, and should not
be used under any other circumstances.
- -P
- Specify an environment password. Although Berkeley DB
utilities overwrite password strings as soon as possible, be aware there
may be a window of vulnerability on systems where unprivileged users can
see command-line arguments or where utilities are not able to overwrite
the memory containing the command-line arguments.
- -q
- Suppress the printing of any error descriptions, simply
exit success or failure.
- -V
- Write the library version number to the standard output,
and exit.
The db5.3_verify utility does not perform any locking, even in
Berkeley DB environments that are configured with a locking subsystem.
As such, it should only be used on files that are not being modified
by another thread of control.
The db5.3_verify utility may be used with a Berkeley DB environment (as
described for the
-h option, the environment variable
DB_HOME,
or because the utility was run in a directory containing a Berkeley DB
environment). In order to avoid environment corruption when using a Berkeley
DB environment, db5.3_verify should always be given the chance to detach from
the environment and exit gracefully. To cause db5.3_verify to release all
environment resources and exit cleanly, send it an interrupt signal (SIGINT).
The db5.3_verify utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- DB_HOME
- If the -h option is not specified and the
environment variable DB_HOME is set, it is used as the path of the
database home, as described in DB_ENV->open.
AUTHORS¶
Sleepycat Software, Inc. This manual page was created based on the HTML
documentation for db_verify from Sleepycat, by Thijs Kinkhorst
<thijs@kinkhorst.com>, for the Debian system (but may be used by
others).