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NAME

ftndb-admin - Administration of an SQL database for Fidonet/FTN processing.

VERSION

Version 0.35

DESCRIPTION

Administration of a database for Fidonet/FTN related processing. The SQL database engine is one for which a DBD module exists, defaulting to SQLite.

SYNOPSIS

ftndb-admin -c config_file [options] [-d databasename] create|drop database

ftndb-admin -c config_file [options] [-t tablename] create|drop table

ftndb-admin [-h | --help]

ftndb-admin --version

OPTIONS

-c

This is the filename and path of a configuration file, with the default being ftndb.cfg in the current directory.

-x

Debug option.

-v

Verbose option.

-d

Name of the database being created or dropped.

-t

The nodelist table name to be used. Note that if there is a period in the name, that period will be changed to an underscore.

COMMANDS

create database

This will create a database an SQL database server being used for Fidonet/FTN processing. If it already exists, it will drop it first, before going on to create it again.

drop database

This will drop a database if it exists in an SQL database server being used for Fidonet/FTN processing.

create table

This will create a nodelist table in an SQL database being used for Fidonet/FTN nodelist processing. If it already exists, it will drop it first before going on to create it again.

drop table

This will drop a database table if it exists in an SQL database server being used for Fidonet/FTN processing.

CONFIGURATION

Configuration information not provided by the command line options are obtained from a configuration file. That can be defined by setting the "-c" option, which is the path and file name of the configuration file to be used. If that is not defined, it looks for a file named ftndb.cfg in the current directory. The file contains configuration items listed outside of a named section as well as those listed within a named section, and blank lines and lines starting with a "#" are ignored.

The first items in the file are those outside of a named section:

LogFile

This is the rquired filename and path of a log file.

The Database section in the configuration file has the following keywords:

Type

Database type. This needs to be a database type for which a DBD module exists, the type being the name as used in the DBD module. The default type is SQLite.

Name

Database name. For an SQLite database; this needs to be at least the filename and can also include a path.

User

Database user. For an SQLite database, this defaults to an empty string as it is not needed for that type of a database.

Password

Database password. For an SQLite database, this defaults to an empty string as it is not needed for that type of a database.

This is an example of the contents of an ftndb.cfg file:

# ftndb.cfg
LogFile=/opt/ftndb/ftndb.log

[Database]
Type=mysql
Name=ftndbtst
User=sysop
Password=ftndbtst

EXAMPLES

Given that $CFGFILE is a configuration file, the following command line can be used to create an FTN Nodelist table in that database file:

ftndb-admin -c $CFGFILE -t Nodelist -v create table

AUTHOR

Robert James Clay, <jame at rocasa.us>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests via the web interface at https://sourceforge.net/p/ftnpl/ftndb/tickets/. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

Note that you can also report any bugs or feature requests to bug-ftndb at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=ftndb; however, the FTN Database application Issue tracker at the SourceForge project is preferred.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc ftndb-admin

You can also look for information at:

SEE ALSO

L<FTN::Database>, L<FTNDB::Nodelist>, and L<ftndb-nodelist>.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2010-2012 Robert James Clay, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.