BERKELEY_DB5.3_SVC(1)

💖 BERKELEY_DB5.3_SVC 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about berkeley_db5.3_svc from the General Commands Manual and honestly? she's iconic. this is the Berkeley DB RPC server, and yes, she's the main character. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

berkeley_db5.3_svc — the Berkeley DB RPC server. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

berkeley_db5.3_svc [-Vv] [-h home] [-I seconds] [-L file] [-t seconds]
[-T seconds]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, the berkeley_db5.3_svc utility is the Berkeley DB RPC server. no notes. periodt. ✨

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -h home — okay so this one adds the home directory you name to the list of allowed home directories that a client is allowed to specify. the home directory should be an absolute pathname, no shortcuts bestie. the last component of each home directory you specify must be unique, because that's literally how clients say which database environment they wanna join. 💫

and listen — recovery gets run on every single environment you specify before the server even starts accepting requests from clients. which means: only one copy of the server program should ever be run at any time, because recovery must always be single-threaded. that's a hard rule, no cap. 😭

• -I seconds — sets the default idle timeout for client environments to however many seconds you say. the default timeout is 24 hours. she's patient. 🫶
• -L file — logs the execution of the berkeley_db5.3_svc utility to the file you specify, in this exact format, where ### is the process ID and the date is the time the utility was started:

berkeley_db5.3_svc: ### Wed Jun 15 01:23:45 EDT 1995

also this file gets removed if the berkeley_db5.3_svc utility exits gracefully. so like, she cleans up after herself, we love that. 💖

• -t seconds — sets the default timeout for client resources (idle transactions and cursors) to the number of seconds you give. when the timeout expires: if the resource is a transaction, it gets aborted; if the resource is a cursor, it gets closed. the default timeout is 5 minutes. ⏰
• -T seconds — sets the maximum timeout allowed for client resources. default is 20 minutes. so if a client application asks for a server timeout that's bigger than the max you set for this server, the client's timeout gets capped at the maximum timeout value. sorry babe, that's the ceiling. 👑
• -V — writes the library version number to standard output and exits. quick little flex, then she's gone. ⭐
• -v — run in verbose mode. she will simply tell you everything. 🗣️

the berkeley_db5.3_svc 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, then it's used as the path of the database home, as described in DB_ENV->open. iykyk. 🧚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Sleepycat Software, Inc. 💜 this manual page was created based on the HTML documentation for berkeley_db_svc from Sleepycat, by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@kinkhorst.com>, for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

and that's the whole page bestie, no crumbs left 🍓 — this was the General Commands Manual entry, dated 28 January 2005, source and version BERKELEY_DB5.3_SVC(1). slay, go run your RPC server, ily 💖✨