1OVDB_MONITOR(8) InterNetNews Documentation OVDB_MONITOR(8)
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6 ovdb_monitor - Database maintenance
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9 Use ovdb_init to start ovdb_monitor
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12 When started (normally by ovdb_init that is invoked by rc.news),
13 ovdb_monitor forks three processes that perform routine database
14 maintenance tasks. These are transaction checkpointing, deadlock
15 detection, and transaction log removal.
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17 The process ID of the parent is written to ovdb_monitor.pid in the
18 pathrun directory. This PID is used by other INN commands to verify
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21 To shut down ovdb_monitor, send a TERM signal to the process ID in
22 ovdb_monitor.pid. The parent process will shut down the three children
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24 the "rc.news stop" command to stop the news system, rc.news
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28 Written by Heath Kehoe <hakehoe@avalon.net> for InterNetNews.
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31 ovdb(5), ovdb_init(8), rc.news(8).
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