GNOME 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris Operating Environment Troubleshooting Guide

5.2 ScrollKeeper Options Not Fully Documented

Problem  

ScrollKeeper.

In the scrollkeeper-rebuilddb man page, the -o and -p options are not fully documented.

Solution  

You do not need to use the -o and -p options to perform a standard setup of the ScrollKeeper database. These options are required only in the following situations:

  • The ScrollKeeper database must be installed in a location other than the standard location. For example, setting up diskless clients.

    Use the -p path option to specify the location of the ScrollKeeper database, where path is an empty directory. The scrollkeeper-rebuilddb command will not proceed if you specify a populated path for this option.

  • The OMF files must be read from a location other than the standard location. The standard location for OMF files is specified in the /etc/scrollkeeper.conf file.

    Use the -o path option to specify the location of the OMF files. Specify the complete pathname, for example, /usr/share/omf. If you specify a partial pathname, for example, /usr/share, the scrollkeeper-rebuilddb command will take a long time, produce many warnings, and may crash.

The following example shows how to use the -o and -p options to set up the ScrollKeeper database for diskless clients:


# scrollkeeper-rebuilddb \
-p /export/root/clone/Solaris_9/\
sun4u/var/gnome/lib/scrollkeeper \
-o /export/exec/Solaris_9_sparc.all/\
usr/share/omf