[Pkg-torrus-maintainers] Help with torrus 2.01?

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Hi,

>> One can always remove the db and recompile if
>> it breaks.
> That works?

Sort of, the db-directory is just a binary representation of the 
xmlconfig, generated by "torrus compilexml". ACLs aren't recreated 
though, and I did not find a way to dump/restore them yet. Upstream says 
(http://torrus.org/userguide.pod.html):

Database lock troubleshooting

It may happen sometimes, that a process accessing Torrus database 
terminates incorrectly, and the database becomes blocked. A typical 
symptom of this is that the command torrus compilexml --all --verbose 
does not print anything and stays running forever, occupying zero 
percent of CPU.

The nice, and the preferred way to solve the problem is to use 
db_recover utility from BerkeleyDB package. The brutal way is just to 
remove the databases and re-compile all the configuration. Note: The ACL 
database is not automatically backed up, and you need to take care of 
its backup before deleting the contents of the database.

   ## The nice way uses BerkeleyDB db_recover
   ## (might be located in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1/bin/)
   /etc/init.d/apache stop
   /etc/init.d/torrus stop
   db_recover -h /var/torrus/db
   torrus compilexml --verbose --all
   /etc/init.d/torrus start
   /etc/init.d/apache start

   ## The brutal way
   /etc/init.d/apache stop
   /etc/init.d/torrus stop
   cd /var/torrus/db
   rm -r *
   torrus compilexml --verbose
   /etc/init.d/torrus start
   /etc/init.d/apache start

Best Regards,
Bernhard