SYNOPSYS

       Use "ovdb_init" to start ovdb_monitor

DESCRIPTION

       When started (by "ovdb_init"), "ovdb_monitor" forks three processes
       that perform routine database maintenance tasks.  These are: transac-
       tion checkpointing, deadlock detection, and transaction log removal.
       The process ID of the parent is written to pathrun/ovdb_monitor.pid.
       This PID is used by other INN commands to verify that ovdb_monitor is
       running.

       To shut down ovdb_monitor, send a TERM signal to the process ID in
       pathrun/ovdb_monitor.pid .  The parent process will shut down the three
       children and wait for their exit before exiting itself.

HISTORY

       Written by Heath Kehoe <hakehoe@avalon.net> for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO

       ovdb(5), ovdb_init(8)



INN 2.4.0                         2002-02-02                   OVDB_MONITOR(8)