About

This agent performs a variety of maintenance and repair functions.

Supported actions

Commandline flag	Description
-a	Run all non slow maintenance operations
-A	Run all maintenance operations
-D	Vacuum Analyze the database
-F	Validate folder contents
-g	Delete orphan gold files
-h	Print help (usage)
-N	Normalize the (internal) priority numbers
-p	Verify file permissions (report only)
-P	Verify and fix file permissions
-R	Remove uploads with no pfiles
-T	Remove orphaned temp tables
-L	Remove orphaned log files from file systems
-U	Process expired uploads (slow)
-Z	Remove orphaned files from the repository (slow)
-i	Initialize the database, then exit
-I	Reindexing of database (This activity may take 5-10 mins. Execute only when system is not in use)
-v	verbose (turns on debugging output)
-V	print the version info, then exit
-c SYSCONFDIR	Specify the directory for the system configuration.

Anyone with execute access can run this agent. This makes it easy to put in a cron job. If run from the FOSSology UI, you must be an admin.