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DB5.3_PRINTLOG(1)                      General Commands Manual                     DB5.3_PRINTLOG(1)



NAME
       db5.3_printlog - Dumps Berkeley DB log files in a human-readable format

SYNOPSIS
       db5.3_printlog [-NrV] [-b start-LSN] [-e stop-LSN] [-h home] [-P password]

DESCRIPTION
       The  db5.3_printlog  utility is a debugging utility that dumps Berkeley DB log files in a hu‐
       man-readable format.

OPTIONS
       -b     Display log records starting at log sequence  number  (LSN)  start-LSN;  start-LSN  is
              specified  as  a file number, followed by a slash (/) character, followed by an offset
              number, with no intervening whitespace.

       -e     Stop displaying log records at log sequence number (LSN) stop-LSN; stop-LSN is  speci‐
              fied  as  a file number, followed by a slash (/) character, followed by an offset num‐
              ber, with no intervening whitespace.

       -h     Specify a home directory for the database environment; by default, the current working
              directory is used.

       -N     Do  not  acquire  shared region mutexes while running.  Other problems, such as poten‐
              tially 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  sys‐
              tems  where  unprivileged  users can see command-line arguments or where utilities are
              not able to overwrite the memory containing the command-line arguments.

       -r     Read the log files in reverse order.

       -V     Write the library version number to the standard output, and exit.

       The db5.3_printlog utility uses 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_printlog should always be given the chance to detach from the environment
       and exit gracefully.  To cause db5.3_printlog to release all environment resources  and  exit
       cleanly, send it an interrupt signal (SIGINT).

       The db5.3_printlog 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_printlog  from  Sleepycat, by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs AT kinkhorst.com>, for the Debian system
       (but may be used by others).



                                           28 January 2005                         DB5.3_PRINTLOG(1)