• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• OPTIONS
• DESCRIPTION
• TO DO
• AUTHOR

NAME

dbinfo 0.8.0

SYNOPSIS

Scans a PennMUSH database for validity, and reports some information about the database.

 % zcat outdb.Z | ./dbinfo.pl [-a] [-q]
 % gzcat outdb.gz | ./dbinfo.pl [-a] [-q]
 % bzcat outdb.bz2 | ./dbinfo.pl [-a] [-q]
 % ./dbinfo.pl [-a] [-q]  --panic < PANIC.db
 % ./dbinfo.pl [-a] [-q] [--panic] filename

OPTIONS

       -a: Display extra information about attributes.
       -q: Only report corrupt databases and warnings.
  --panic: Treat the database as a panic dump even if
           it doesn't look like one.

DESCRIPTION

Scans a PennMUSH database, and reports some information about the db. If the file appears corrupt (A string where a number is expected, etc.) it will stop, reporting what is bad in which object. If a database file passes this script, it can almost certainly be read by Penn itself. The script does no internal consistency checks like the mush's dbcks, though.

If you give a filename on the command line, compressed databases are detected and uncompressed automatically for scanning based on file extension.

TO DO

• Mail and Chat database checking. Right now they're just ignored.

• Old-style lock checking. Right now it just skips over these.

AUTHOR

Raevnos <raevnos@pennmush.org>