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Preface: About This Manual
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New 2000.2 Features
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Please Give Us Feedback
Chapter 1: Welcome to Perforce: Installing and Upgrading
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Installing Perforce on UNIX
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Creating a Perforce server root directory
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Telling the Perforce server which port to listen to
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Telling Perforce clients which port to talk to
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Starting the Perforce server
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Stopping the Perforce server
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Installing Perforce on NT
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Terminology note: NT services and servers
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Starting and stopping Perforce on NT
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Installation and Administration Tips
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Release and license information
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Observe proper backup procedures
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Use separate filesystems for server root and journal
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Use protections and passwords
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Allocate diskspace for anticipated growth
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Managing disk space after installation
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Large filesystem support
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UNIX: Install servers on local filesystems
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NT: Username and password required for networked drives
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UNIX and NT: Run p4d as a non-privileged user
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Logging errors
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Case-sensitivity issues
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Tune for performance
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Upgrading a Perforce Server
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UNIX upgrades
- Upgrading from UNIX Release 98.2 or later
- Upgrading from UNIX Release 98.1 or earlier
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NT upgrades
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Installation and Administration Tips
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Release and license information
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Observe proper backup procedures
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Use separate filesystems for server root and journal
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Use protections and passwords
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Allocate diskspace for anticipated growth
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Managing disk space after installation
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Large filesystem support
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UNIX: Install servers on non-NFS filesystems
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NT: Username and password required for networked drives
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UNIX and NT: Run p4d as a non-privileged user
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Logging errors
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Case-sensitivity issues
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Tune for performance
Chapter 2: Supporting Perforce: Backup and Recovery
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Backup and Recovery Concepts
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Checkpoint files
- Creating a checkpoint
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Journal files
- Enabling journaling
- Disabling journaling
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Versioned files
- Versioned file formats
- Back up after checkpointing
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Backup Procedures
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Recovery Procedures
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Database corruption, versioned files unaffected
- To recover the database
- Check your system
- Your system state
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Both database and versioned files lost or damaged
- To recover the database
- To recover your versioned files
- Check your system
- Your system state
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Ensuring system integrity after any restoration
Chapter 3: Administering Perforce: Superuser Tasks
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Basic Perforce Administration
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Resetting user passwords
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Creating new users
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Preventing creation of new users
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Reverting files opened by obsolete users
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Reclaiming diskspace by obliterating files
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Deleting changelists and editing changelist descriptions
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File verification by signature
- Verifying during server upgrades
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Defining filetypes with p4 typemap
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Forcing operations with the -f flag
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Advanced Perforce Administration
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Running Perforce through a firewall
- Secure shell
- Solving the problem
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Specifying IP addresses in P4PORT
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Running from inetd on UNIX
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Case-sensitivity and multi-platform development
- Perforce server on UNIX
- Perforce server on NT
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Perforce server trace flags
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Migrating to a new machine
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Moving your versioned files and Perforce database
- Between machines of the same architecture
- Between different architectures using the same text format
- Between NT and UNIX
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Changing the IP address of your server
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Changing the hostname of your server
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Using Multiple Depots
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Remote depot notes
- When and when not to use remote depots
- Restrictions on remote depots:
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Defining new depots
- Defining local depots
- Defining remote depots
- The Map: field
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Other depot operations
- Naming depots
- Listing depots
- Deleting depots
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Limiting access from other servers
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Users working with multiple depots
Chapter 4: Administering Perforce: Protections
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When Should Protections Be Set?
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Setting Protections with "p4 protect"
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The permission lines' five fields
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Access levels
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Which users should receive which permissions?
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Default protections
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Interpreting multiple permission lines
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Exclusionary protections
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Granting Access to Groups of Users
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Creating and editing groups
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Groups and protections
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Deleting groups
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How Protections are Implemented
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Access Levels Required by Perforce Commands
Chapter 5: Customizing Perforce: Job Specifications
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The Default Perforce Job Template
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The Job Template's Fields
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The Fields: field
- Caveats, recommendations, and warnings
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The Presets: field
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The Values: fields
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The Comments: field
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Example: A Custom Template
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Integrating with Other Defect Tracking Systems
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Caveats, Warnings and Recommendations
Chapter 6: Scripting Perforce: Daemons and Triggers
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Triggers
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Using triggers
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Triggers and security
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Daemons
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Perforce's change review daemon
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Creating other daemons
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Commands used by daemons
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Daemons and counters
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Scripting and buffering
Chapter 7: Tuning Perforce for Performance
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Tuning for Performance
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Memory
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Filesystem performance
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Diskspace allocation
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Network
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CPU
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Diagnosing Slow Response Times
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Hostname vs. IP address
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Try p4 info vs. P4Win
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Windows wildcards
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DNS lookups and the hosts file
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Location of the "p4" executable
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Preventing Server Swamp
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Using tight views
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Assigning protections
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Limiting "maxresults"
- Maxresults for users in multiple groups
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Scripting efficiently
- Iterating through files
- Using list input files
- Using branch views
- Limiting label references
- The temporary client trick
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Checkpoints for Database Tree Rebalancing
Chapter 8: Perforce and NT
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Using the Perforce installer
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Upgrade notes
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Installation options
- User install
- Administrator typical
- Administrator custom
- Uninstall Perforce
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NT services vs. NT servers
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Starting and stopping the Perforce NT service
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Starting and stopping the Perforce NT server
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Installing the Perforce NT service on a network drive
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Multiple Perforce services under NT
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NT configuration parameter precedence
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Resolving NT-related instabilities
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Users having trouble with P4EDITOR or P4DIFF
Appendix A: Perforce Server (p4d) Reference
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Synopsis
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Syntax
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Description
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Exit Status
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Options
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Usage Notes
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Related Commands
Appendix B: Glossary
Index
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