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Table Of Contents
- Avid iNEWS Administration Guide
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- 1 - Introduction
- 2 - Connect Services
- 3 - Database Security
- 4 - Database Management
- 5 - Backing Up the iNEWS System
- 6 - Disconnects
- 7 - Troubleshooting
- A - Command References
- Programs Invoked by iNEWS
- Commands Used by Avid Personnel Only
- Linux Commands Used in iNEWS
- Console Control Commands
- Console Server Commands
- broadcast
- configure
- connect
- ctraits
- dbclean
- dbclose
- dbdev
- dbdump
- dbfree
- dblines
- dboriginal
- dbpurge (Superuser conditional)
- dbrestore
- dbserver
- dbsort
- dbtraits
- dbvisit
- dictionary
- diskclear (Superuser only)
- diskcopy
- doc
- ed
- enter
- force (Superuser only)
- grpcheck
- gtraits (Superuser only)
- help
- hogs
- idiff
- list
- list B
- list C
- list c
- list d
- list g
- list p
- list q
- list s
- list sq
- list u
- logout
- makemontab
- makeshift (Super user only)
- maketab (Superuser only)
- msgclean
- offline
- online
- otod
- reconnect
- remove
- rename (Superuser only)
- reorder
- restart
- searchtape
- send
- shutdown
- sitedump (Superuser only)
- siterestore (Superuser only)
- startup
- status
- stop
- su
- unbusy
- utraits (Super user only)
- version
- wholockedit
- Job List Commands
- Dialog Commands
- B - System Files
- C - Standard Dictionaries
- Using Dictionaries to Define Messages and Commands
- Customizing Dictionaries
- Utility Messages Dictionary (/site/dict/messages)
- DBServer Program Messages
- Disconnect Program Messages
- Category and Keyword Check Program Messages
- Keyboard Check Program Messages
- Keyboard Check Program Messages for Macros
- Grpcheck Messages
- Wire Program Messages
- Mail Server Messages
- Validation (Action) Server
- Seek Server Messages
- Last Login Messages
- Print Server Messages
- dbtraits Messages
- Save Error (Workstation) Messages
- Queues Dictionary (/site/dict/queues)
- Words Dictionary (/site/dict/words)
- Keyboard Macros Dictionary (/site/dict/keymacros)
- Case-shifting Dictionary (/site/dict/shift)
- MCS Dictionary (/site/dict/mcs)
- Job List Command Dictionary (/site/dict/joblist)
- D Messages Dictionary (/site/dict/dmessages)
- S Messages Dictionary (/site/dict/smessages)
- D - Environment Variables
- E - Managing Traits at the Console
- F - The Line Editor, ed
- Index
Console Server Commands
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dictionary
dictionary [-update] <dictionary> | <directory> ...
Any combination of dictionary names and dictionary directories can be specified. For each
directory specified, all dictionaries within that directory will be compared to their standard
dictionary counterpart. Only missing and obsolete dictionary tokens are identified;
definitions are not compared.
The standard dictionary name begins with a pound sign (#) and is expected to reside in the
same directory. A dictionary update is only done when the -update flag is specified;
otherwise, the dictionary is only checked, by default. Any tokens found in the standard
dictionary that are missing from the dictionary will be added and those found in the
dictionary that are missing from the standard dictionary will be removed.
diskclear
(Superuser only)
diskclear [-|u]
Marks each block of a server’s database as invalid so that you can copy a new database to the
disk. To clear the disk, select a server and type:
diskclear -
Do this prior to connecting a replacement server to a running system.
c
Using this command erases the server’s entire database.
To reverse the effects of diskclear, type:
diskclear u
Arguments Description
- Clear database
-+ Writes to disk (cannot be repaired by running diskclear u)
-- Read database blocks
-<number> The number of blocks to process at one time
u Unclear database