[Samba] CTDB - deleting database entries

[Orlando Richards]

On 11/12/12 10:17, Bjoern Baumbach wrote:
> Hi Orlando!
>
> On 12/10/2012 04:01 PM, Orlando Richards wrote:
>> Is there any way to remove entries in a CTDB cluster once they have been
>> created, short of shutting down all nodes, editing each tdb manually,
>> then starting them back up?
>
> Yes! You can use the undocumented dbwrap_tool.
>
> USAGE: dbwrap_tool <database> <op> [<key> [<type> [<value>]]]
>         ops: fetch, store, delete, erase, listkeys, listwatchers
>         types: int32, uint32, string, hex
>
> Example:
> # list all the keys
> dbwrap_tool yourdb.tdb listkeys
>
> # remove the record by key
> dbwrap_tool yourdb.tdb delete "name of the key"
>
> Best regards
> Björn
>

Excellent - thanks Bjoern, I'll give that a go.
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Orlando



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