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<refentry id="refentry-refdb8">
  <refentryinfo><date>2005-10-15</date></refentryinfo>
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>refdb</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="date">2005-10-15</refmiscinfo>
    <refmiscinfo class="manual">RefDB Manual</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>
  <refnamediv id="refdb-name">
    <refname>refdb</refname>
    <refname>refdb.sh</refname>
    <refpurpose>refdbd startup script</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
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  <refsynopsisdiv id="refdb-synopsis">
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>refdb</command>
      <group choice="plain">
	<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>start</replaceable></arg>
	<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>stop</replaceable></arg>
	<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>restart</replaceable></arg>
	<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>force-reload</replaceable></arg>
      </group>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>


  <refsect1 id="refdb-description">
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>refdb is a wrapper script for refdbd(1) to be used as a rc(8) or init(8) control script. The script is called refdb.sh on BSD-style systems. See the documentation of your system how to integrate refdb into the start process to run refdbd(1) automatically as a daemon.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="refdb-options">
    <title>Options</title>
    <variablelist remap="TP">
      <varlistentry>
	<term><emphasis remap="I">start</emphasis></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>Starts the refdbd(1) daemon</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><emphasis remap="I">stop</emphasis></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>Stops the refdbd(1) daemon</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><emphasis remap="I">restart</emphasis></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>Restarts the refdbd(1) daemon</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><emphasis remap="I">force-reload</emphasis></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>Causes the refdbd(1) daemon to read its configuration file</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="refdb-see_also">
    <title>See also</title>
    <para><emphasis remap="B">RefDB</emphasis> (7),
    <emphasis remap="B"><link linkend="refentry-refdbd">refdbd</link></emphasis> (1)
    <emphasis remap="B"><link linkend="refentry-refdbctl">refdbctl</link></emphasis> (1).</para> 

    <para><emphasis remap="I">RefDB manual (local copy) </emphasis> &lt;prefix&gt;/share/doc/refdb-&lt;version&gt;/refdb-manual/index.html</para>

    <para><emphasis remap="I">RefDB manual (web) </emphasis> &lt;<ulink url="http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html">http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html</ulink>&gt;</para>

    <para><emphasis remap="I">RefDB on the web </emphasis> &lt;<ulink url="http://refdb.sourceforge.net/">http://refdb.sourceforge.net/</ulink>&gt;</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="refdb-author">
    <title>Author</title>
    <para>refdb was written by Markus Hoenicka &lt;markus@mhoenicka.de&gt;.</para>

  </refsect1>
</refentry>
