OVDB_SERVER(8)

💅 OVDB_SERVER(8) — like, the InterNetNews Documentation girlies know ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about ovdb_server, and honestly? she's the backstage main character of the whole overview operation 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ovdb_server — the overview helper server for nnrpd, periodt 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Use ovdb_init to start ovdb_server

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you don't launch her yourself, you let ovdb_init do the matchmaking 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕ — if the readserver parameter over in ovdb.conf is set to true, then ovdb_init (as long as it wasn't invoked with the -r flag, bestie, pay attention to that part) will start up as many ovdb_server processes as the numrsprocs parameter states. like, a whole little squad of them, however many numrsprocs says. no cap 🫡

what does each one actually do? ovdb_server opens the overview database, and then she accesses it on behalf of the nnrpd reader processes. she's literally the go-between, the group-chat admin, the one holding the overview database's hand so the nnrpd girlies don't have to 😭💅

and when it's time to shut her down? you send a TERM signal to the process ID mentioned in ovdb_server.pid in pathrun. dramatic, but make it clean 💀

ngl, the rc.news script already does that for you if it's used to shut down INN — so like, you might not even need to do it manually. work smarter, not harder 💖

oh and the parent process? she's not leaving her kids behind. the parent process will shut down its children and wait for their exit before exiting itself. iconic parenting behavior, honestly 🌈👑

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📜 HISTORY 📜

Written by Heath Kehoe <hakehoe@avalon.net> for InterNetNews. king behavior, we stan 🫶✨

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• ovdb(5)
• ovdb_init(8)
• rc.news(8)

go read those too, iykyk 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie — this one's from INN 2.7.4, dated 2022-07-10, brought to you by the InterNetNews Documentation girlies 🎀💖 see you in the next manpage, mwah 💅