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<pre class="programlisting">db_verify [-NoqV] [-h home] [-P password] file ... </pre>
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The <span class="command"><strong>db_verify</strong></span> utility verifies the structure of one or more files and
the databases they contain.
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The options are as follows:
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<span class="bold"><strong>-h</strong></span>
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Specify a home directory for the database environment; by default, the
current working directory is used.
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<span class="bold"><strong>-o</strong></span>
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Skip the database checks for btree and duplicate sort order and for
hashing.
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If the file being verified contains databases with non-default
comparison or hashing configurations, calling the <span class="command"><strong>db_verify</strong></span> utility
without the <span class="bold"><strong>-o</strong></span> flag will usually
return failure. The <span class="bold"><strong>-o</strong></span> flag causes
<span class="command"><strong>db_verify</strong></span> to ignore database sort or hash ordering and allows
<span class="command"><strong>db_verify</strong></span> to be used on these files. To fully verify these files,
verify them explicitly using the <a class="xref" href="dbverify.html" title="DB->verify()">DB->verify()</a>
method, after configuring the correct comparison or hashing functions.
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<span class="bold"><strong>-N</strong></span>
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Do not acquire shared region mutexes while running. Other problems,
such as potentially fatal errors in Berkeley DB, will be ignored as
well. This option is intended only for debugging errors, and should
not be used under any other circumstances.
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<span class="bold"><strong>-P</strong></span>
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Specify an environment password. Although Berkeley DB utilities
overwrite password strings as soon as possible, be aware there may be
a window of vulnerability on systems where unprivileged users can see
command-line arguments or where utilities are not able to overwrite
the memory containing the command-line arguments.
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<span class="bold"><strong>-q</strong></span>
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Suppress the printing of any error descriptions, simply exit success
or failure.
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<span class="bold"><strong>-V</strong></span>
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Write the library version number to the standard output, and exit.
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<span class="bold"><strong>The <span class="command"><strong>db_verify</strong></span> utility does not perform any
locking, even in Berkeley DB environments that are configured with a
locking subsystem. As such, it should only be used on files that are
not being modified by another thread of control.</strong></span>
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The <span class="command"><strong>db_verify</strong></span> utility may be used with a Berkeley DB environment (as
described for the <span class="bold"><strong>-h</strong></span> option, the
environment variable <span class="bold"><strong>DB_HOME</strong></span>, or
because the utility was run in a directory containing a Berkeley DB
environment). In order to avoid environment corruption when using a
Berkeley DB environment, <span class="command"><strong>db_verify</strong></span> should always be given the chance
to detach from the environment and exit gracefully. To cause
<span class="command"><strong>db_verify</strong></span> to release all environment resources and exit cleanly, send
it an interrupt signal (SIGINT).
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The <span class="command"><strong>db_verify</strong></span> utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error
occurs.
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If the <span class="bold"><strong>-h</strong></span> option is not specified and
the environment variable DB_HOME is set, it is used as the path of the
database home, as described in the
<a class="xref" href="envopen.html" title="DB_ENV->open()">DB_ENV->open()</a>
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