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+.TH GLITE-LB-PURGE 8 "April 2008" "EGEE Project" "Logging&Bookkeeping"
+
+
+.SH NAME
+glite-lb-purge - utility for removing inactive jobs from the L&B database
+
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B glite-lb-purge
+.RI [ options ]
+.br
+
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B glite-lb-purge
+is utility for removing inactive jobs from the L&B database. By default, it removes jobs that reached CLEARED, ABORTED and CANCELLED state and also OTHER jobs that are in another state and are inactive for specific (rather long) time. It is a command line frontend to server internal purge. It is used by administrators of bkserver and it is not supposed to be used at the user level.
+
+.B glite-lb-purge
+may be run periodically in order to avoid database overflow, however the periodic purges are done by server itself, so check the configuration of the server first.
+
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.IP "-m, --server \fIbkserver\fR"
+L&B server machine name. If not specified, the environment variable EDG_WL_QUERY_SERVER is beeing checked.
+
+.IP "-a, --aborted \fiNNN[smhd]\fR"
+Purge ABORTED jobs older than NNN seconds/minutes/hours/days (only one number and one letter allowed). If the time is not specified, the default timeout is determined by the server.
+
+.IP "-c, --cleared \fiNNN[smhd]\fR"
+Purge CLEARED jobs older than given time.
+
+.IP "-n, --cancelled \fiNNN[smhd]\fR"
+Purge CANCELLED jobs older than given time.
+
+.IP "-e, --done \fiNNN[smhd]\fR"
+Purge DONE jobs older than given time.
+
+.IP "-o, --other \fiNNN[smhd]\fR"
+Purge OTHER (i.e. job in other state than ABORTED, CLEARED or CANCELLED) jobs older than given time.
+
+.IP "-r, --dry-run"
+Do not really purge.
+
+.IP "-j, --jobs \fIfilename\fR"
+Input file with jobIds of jobs to purge.
+
+.IP "-l, --return-list"
+Return list of jobid matching the purge/dump criteria.
+
+.IP "-s, --server-dump"
+Dump jobs at the server into a file (see bkserverd).
+
+.IP "-i, --client-dump"
+Receive stream of dumped jobs (NOT implemented yet!).
+
+.IP "-h, --help"
+Display help.
+
+.IP "-v, --version"
+Display version.
+
+.IP "-d, --debug"
+Print diagnostics on the \fIstderr\fR.
+
+.IP "-x, --proxy"
+Purge L&B proxy.
+
+.IP "-X, --sock \fIpath\fR"
+Purge L&B proxy using given socket path.
+
+.IP "-t, --target-runtime \fiNNN[smhd]\fR"
+Throttle purge to the estimated target runtime.
+
+
+.\".SH EXAMPLES
+.\"To appear :o(
+
+
+.SH FILES
+No configuration files needed.
+
+
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+.TP
+.B EDG_WL_QUERY_SERVER
+If
+.RB $ EDG_WL_QUERY_SERVER
+is set, its value is used as the bkserver address.
+
+
+.SH REPORTING BUGS
+Please, report all bugs to EGEE Bug Tracking System located at https://savannah.cern.ch
+
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+\fBglite-lb-bkindex\fP(8), \fBglite-lb-bkserverd\fP(8), \fBglite-lb-interlogd\fP(8), \fBglite-lb-logd\fP(8), \fBglite-lb-logevent\fP(1), \fBglite-lb-dump\fP(8), \fBglite-lb-load\fP(8)
+
+
+.SH AUTHOR
+EU EGEE, JRA1.