databases(5)

NAME
databases - the known set of GNATS databases

DESCRIPTION
databases contains a list of database names and their associated parameters. It it used by the GNATS clients to determine the location of a database referred to by name. It is located by default in @PREFIX@/share/gnats/databases.

databases consists of one or more lines containing at least three colon-separated fields:

    defaultThe default database/the/directory

Lines beginning with a # are ignored.

The first field is the database name, which is the string passed to the --database option or specified via the GNATSDB environment variable. The second field is a short human-readable description of the database contents. The final field is the directory where the database contents are kept.

It may also contain one or two additional fields describing the network location of the database:

    networkNetwork dbgnats.foo.com1234

The last two options describe the hostname and port of the server where gnatsd is running.

Both a directory and a server/port may be present. In this case gnatsd uses the directory field to determine where the database contents are located, while the clients use the server/port information to connect to gnatsd.

The database name default is special; this is the entry used if no database name is specified via a --database option or the GNATSDB environment variable.

SEE ALSO
Keeping Track: Managing Messages With GNATS (also installed as the GNU Info file gnats.info) and Reporting Problems Using send-pr (also installed as the GNU Info file send-pr.info).

gnats(7), send-pr(1), edit-pr(1), delete-pr(8), query-pr(1), file-pr(8), queue-pr(8), gen-index(8), mkcat(8), mkdb(8).

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