NAME

db_maintain.pl - perform periodic database maintainance.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: db_maintain.pl
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.08

SYNOPSIS

db_maintain.pl [options]

DESCRIPTION

This program performs periodic maintainance on a database. Different database servers need different periodic maintainance (some don't need any, some need it via SQL, some need it via cmd line). This script will accomplish this via the single interface/different drivers paradigm.

OPTIONS

help (type: bool, default: 0)

display help message

pod (type: bool, default: 0)

display pod options snipplet

man (type: bool, default: 0)

display manual page

quit (type: bool, default: 0)

quit without doing anything

gtk (type: bool, default: 0)

run a gtk ui to get the parameters

license (type: bool, default: 0)

show license and exit

show copyright and exit

description (type: bool, default: 0)

show description and exit

history (type: bool, default: 0)

show history and exit

def_file (type: modu, default: xmlx/def/contacts.xml)

which definition file to use ?

connections_file (type: modu, default: xmlx/connections/connections.xml)

which connections file to use ?

name (type: stri, default: )

which database name to use ?

con_name (type: stri, default: )

which connection name to use ?

no free arguments are allowed

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV more thumbnail code
0.01 MV thumbnail user interface
0.02 MV more thumbnail issues
0.03 MV website construction
0.04 MV improve the movie db xml
0.05 MV web site automation
0.06 MV SEE ALSO section fix
0.07 MV move tests to modules
0.08 MV teachers project

SEE ALSO

Meta::Db::Connections(3), Meta::Db::Dbi(3), Meta::Db::Def(3), Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.