mkcat(8) GNATS Admininstration Utilities mkcat(8)NAMEmkcat - create a new GNATS category
SYNOPSISmkcat [ -d databasename | --database=databasename ]
[ -h | --help ]
DESCRIPTION
Scans the database for any new categories, creating new subdirectories
in the database directory if any are found.
This program is mostly obsolete since directories for categories are
automatically created as necessary, but is left for histerical reasons.
mkcat should be run by the GNATS user (by default gnats).
OPTIONS-d, --database
Specifies the database to be scanned for new categories; if no
database is specified, the database named default is assumed.
This option overrides the database specified in the GNATSDB en‐
vironment variable.
-h, --help
Displays a short usage message.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The GNATSDB environment variable is used to determine which database to
use. For a local database, it contains the name of the database to ac‐
cess. If GNATSDB is not set, the database named default is used.
SEE ALSO
Keeping Track: Managing Messages With GNATS (also installed as the GNU
Info file gnats.info)
databases(5), dbconfig(5), delete-pr(8), edit-pr(1)file-pr(8), gen-in‐
dex(8), gnats(7), gnatsd(8), mkcat(8), mkdb(8), pr-edit(8), query-
pr(1), queue-pr(8), send-pr(1).
COPYING
Copyright (c) 1993, 1999, 2003, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the en‐
tire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permis‐
sion notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manu‐
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sions, except that this permission notice may be included in transla‐
tions approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the origi‐
nal English.
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