.TH "EMAINT" "1" "Nov 2008" "Portage VERSION" "Portage"
.SH NAME
emaint \- performs system health checks and maintenance
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR emaint
[\fIoptions\fR]
[\fBall\fR | \fBbinhost\fR | \fBcleanresume\fR | \
\fBmovebin\fR | \fBmoveinst\fR | \fBworld\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The emaint program provides an interface to system health
checks and maintenance.
.SH COMMANDS
.TP
.BR all
Perform all supported commands.
.TP
.BR binhost
Generate a metadata index for binary packages located in \fBPKGDIR\fR (for
download by remote clients). See the \fBPORTAGE_BINHOST\fR documentation in
the \fBmake.conf\fR(5) man page for additional information.
.TP
.BR cleanconfig
Discard no longer installed config tracker entries.
.TP
.BR cleanresume
Discard merge lists saved for the \fBemerge\fR(1) \fB--resume\fR action.
.TP
.BR logs
Clean out old logs from the \fBPORT_LOGDIR\fR using the command
\fBPORT_LOGDIR_CLEAN\fR
See the \fBmake.conf\fR(5) man page for additional information as well as
enabling the \fB'clean-logs'\fR feature in emerge to do this automatically.
.TP
.BR movebin
Perform package move updates for binary packages located in \fBPKGDIR\fR.
.TP
.BR moveinst
Perform package move updates for installed packages.
.TP
.BR world
Fix problems in the \fIworld\fR file.
.SH DEFAULT OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-c, \-\-check
Check for any problems that may exist.  (all commands)
.TP
.B \-f, \-\-fix
Fix any problems that may exist.  (not all commands)
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-C, \-\-clean
Cleans the logs from \fBPORT_LOGDIR\fR (logs command only)
.TP
.B \-p, \-\-pretend
Sets pretend mode (same as \-c, \-\-check) for use with the \-C, \-\-clean
OPTION (logs command only)
.TP
.B \-t NUM, \-\-time NUM
Changes the minimum age \fBNUM\fR (in days) of the logs to be listed or
deleted. (logs command only)
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/
.SH AUTHORS
.nf
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>
.fi
.SH "FILES"
.TP
.B /var/lib/portage/world
Contains a list of all user\-specified packages.
.TP
.B /var/lib/portage/config
Contains the paths and md5sums of all the config files being tracked.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR emerge (1),
.BR portage (5)