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dbconfig fileThe ‘dbconfig’ configuration file controls the configuration of a GNATS database. Each database has its own individual copy of this file, which is located in the ‘gnats-adm’ subdirectory of the database.
The file consists of standard plain text. Whitespace is completely optional and is ignored. Sets of braces ‘@’ are used to delimit the different sections, and all non-keyword values must be surrounded with double quotes. The values in ‘dbconfig’ can be changed at any time; the new values take effect for all subsequent iterations of GNATS tools.
The ‘dbconfig’ file contains 6 major sections, which must appear in the following order:
The different sections are described below. While reading the following
sections, it will be useful to refer to the sample ‘dbconfig’ file
which is installed when a new database is initialized with the
mkdb tool. In fact, the sample file provides a configuration
that should be usable for a great range of sites, since it reproduces
the behaviour of the older, less customizable 3.x versions of
GNATS.
| 4.3.1 Overall database configuration | ||
| 4.3.2 Individual field configuration | ||
| 4.3.3 Field datatypes | ||
| 4.3.4 Edit controls | Trigger on certain edit actions. | |
| 4.3.5 Named query definitions | Define and name standard queries. | |
| 4.3.6 Audit-trail formats | Specify formatting of the audit-trail. | |
| 4.3.7 Outgoing email formats | Specify contents and formatting of messages sent out by GNATS. | |
| 4.3.8 Index file description | Specify the general format and contents of the database index. | |
| 4.3.9 Initial PR input fields | Which fields should be present on initial PR entry. |
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