RWHOIS_INDEXER(8)

💖 RWHOIS_INDEXER 💖

okay so real quick — this is a page from the System Manager's Manual, section 8 (that's the "admin commands" section, iykyk), and it's all about rwhois_indexer, the little workhorse that feeds RWhoisd's MKDB index format. bestie, let's get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

rwhois_indexer — the Indexer for RWhoisd that uses the MKDB format 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rwhois_indexer [-c config_file] -C class_name -A auth_area_name [-i]
               [-v] files...

rwhois_indexer [-c config_file] [-C class_name] [-A auth_area_name] [-i]
               [-v] -s suffix

two whole ways to run her, pick your fighter 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, rwhois_indexer takes your raw text files and builds indexes out of them, based on the attribute definitions of whichever class is defined inside the rwhois dataset. she's not guessing — she's reading the schema, periodt.

she makes two files for you:

1. the first one is a list of the text files that got indexed 📝
2. the second one is a sorted list of all the attributes plus their record offsets within their respective files 📊

and that sorting? that's not her doing it by hand — she's using sort(1) to get it done. teamwork, iconic 🫶

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -c — the full path of the rwhois config file. default is 'rwhois.conf' 💖
• -C — the class (or schema) name of the objects you wanna index. this one is required when you're indexing by file. if you're indexing by suffix, she acts as a restrictor instead.
• -A — the authority area of the objects to be indexed. also required when indexing by file, and also acts as a restrictor if you're indexing by suffix.
• -v — "verbose mode". turns the logging up 🔥
• -q — "quiet mode". turns the logging down 🤫
• -i — Initialize. this one removes all current index files first, so heads up before you hit it 😭
• -s — Suffix mode. indexes all files in all data directories (unless you restricted her with a -C or a -A) that end in "suffix" 🌈

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• rwhoisd(8)

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💀 BUGS 💀

found something broken? please send any bugs to rwhois-bugs@rwhois.net. she wants to know, fr fr 🙈

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this one shipped as part of the RWHOIS_INDEXER(8) page dated 18 Nov 1996 — vintage but still serving main character energy, no cap ✨🎀🦋