This document describes AccuRev’s maintain utility, an administrative tool for occasional use under the guidance of an AccuRev Support Services representative. Before executing a
maintain command, you must first stop the AccuRev Server.
The maintain commands that require a database administrator password will prompt you for it. For security reasons, you cannot specify a database administrator password on the command line.
The maintain program is located in the AccuRev
bin directory. If the command-line client program,
accurev, is on your search path, then so is
maintain.
Each of the maintain commands is described in the next section. Following that are “how to” sections involving use of
maintain commands.
Several maintain options require a database administrator username and password (
<db-admin>). For security reasons, you cannot enter a database administrator password on the command line when invoking a
maintain command. You can only provide a password when prompted by
maintain, or through the encrypted DB_PASS entry in
<ac-install>/bin/acserver.cnf. Here are the rules for providing this information to a
maintain command: