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BOOTSRC

Section: Drizzle Database System (5)
Updated: 2010-03-07
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NAME

bootsrc - the Boots configuration file  

SYNOPSIS

This is the configuration file for the boots command line client  

DESCRIPTION

Boots can be configured using a user specified rc file or command line options/arguments. Options specified in an rc file overwrite defaults and cli options overwrite rc options. The per-user Boots configuration file is located at ~/.bootsrc. Python code is valid in the rc file. The following is a list of configuration fields.  

FIELDS

 

database

   Indicate the database to use.
   Type      string
   Default   None

 

history_file

   Save history to specified file.
   Type      string
   Default   ~/.boots_history

 

history_length

   Specify maximum history file length.
   Type      integer
   Default   100

 

host

   Connect to the Drizzle server on the given host.
   Type      string
   Default   localhost

 

lingo

   Set the lingo to use.
   Type      string
   Default   SQL

 

port

   The TCP/IP to use to connect to the drizzled server.
   Type      integer
   Default   9306

 

prompt1

   Indicate a prompt.
   Type      string
   Default   '>'

 

prompt2

   Indicate a second prompt.
   Type      string
   Default   '+'

 

script

   Indicate a file containing commands.
   Type      string
   Default   None

 

terminating_char

   Specify the SQL statement terminating character
   Type     string
   Default  ;

 

EXAMPLE

 

Setting a configuration value

To connect to the database ``test'' in a Drizzle server running on localhost and listening on port 9306:

        host = "localhost"
        port = 9306
        database = "test"

 

FILES

~/.bootsrc  

REPORTING BUGS

Bugs should be reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/boots/+filebug  

NOTES

Boots is still alpha code. Please don't depend upon it in production.  

COPYRIGHT

Boots is Copyright (C) 2009-2010 by Clark Boylan, Ken Brotherton, Max Goodman, Victoria Lewis, David Rosenbaum, and Andreas Turriff.  

SEE ALSO

boots(1)

You can sign up to the project mailing list at https://launchpad.net/~boots-discuss

For more information please see https://launchpad.net/boots/  

AUTHORS

Clark Boylan (cboylan@cs.pdx.edu), Ken Brotherton (broken@cs.pdx.edu), Max Goodman (mgood@cs.pdx.edu), Victoria Lewis (victor@cs.pdx.edu), David Rosenbaum (drosenba@cs.pdx.edu), and Andreas Turriff (aturriff@cs.pdx.edu).

Much of the content in this manpage has been adopted from the original drizzle manpage written by Sun Microsystems, Inc.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FIELDS
database
history_file
history_length
host
lingo
port
prompt1
prompt2
script
terminating_char
EXAMPLE
Setting a configuration value
FILES
REPORTING BUGS
NOTES
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS

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