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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)