.\" $Id: crashmaint.1,v 1.8 2002/10/11 21:35:47 raorn Exp $
.TH CRASHMAINT 1 "15 April 2001" "Sir Raorn" "CrashEcho"
.SH NAME
crashmaint \- do maintanence on CrashEcho message bases
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B crashmaint
[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fICOMMAND\fR [\fIPATTERN\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Deletes old messages according to
.B KEEPNUM
and
.B KEEPDAYS
in
.BR crashecho.conf (5).
The program can do two different operations on a messagebase,
.BR purge ,
.B pack
and
.BR link .
The meaning of these two modes are different for different messagebase
formats.
.TP
.B *.msg
.I purge
deletes messages.
.I pack
renumbers the area.
.I link
do nothing.
.TP
.B JAM
.I purge
sets the Deleted flag for the messages.
.I pack
removes all messages with the Deleted flag from the messagebase.
.I link
sets reply links to the mesages.
.LP
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
Print version number and exit
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-config\fR=\fIFILE\fR
Use this configuration file instead of the default
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-file\fR=\fIFILE\fR
Read list of areas from \fIFILE\fR
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-delete\-after\fR
Delete \fIFILE\fR with list of areas after processing
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-relink\fR
Do full relink of messagebase instead of updating new replylinks.
This can fix broken messagebase.
.TP
\fB\-M\fR, \fB\-\-msg\fR
Process only \fIMSG\fR areas
.TP
\fB\-J\fR, \fB\-\-jam\fR
Process only \fIJAM\fR areas
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
Gives you a lot of information which you don't really need
.LP
.SH EXAMPLES
.B crashmaint purge RU.*
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR crashecho (1),
.BR crashecho.conf (5)
.\"SH FILES
.\"SH BUGS
.\"SH AUTHOR