User Guide

148 Chapter 10: Using Verity Utilities
Message options
The mkvdk utility provides a variety of messaging options, as described in the following table:
Document processing options
The mkvdk utility provides a variety of document processing options, as the following table
describes:
dataprep Same as search-index-optimize-assist-housekeep
index Same as insert-delete
Option Description
-quiet
Displays only fatal and error messages to the console. It overrides the
-outlevel setting. For a list of message types, see the table in “The mkvdk
utility syntax” on page 142.
-outlevel (num)
Indicates which message types to display to the console. Valid values are
determined by adding together the numbers that correspond to the desired
message types. The default value is 15. For more information, see the table in
“The mkvdk utility syntax” on page 142.
-logfile filename
Saves messages in the specified file.
-loglevel (num)
Indicates which message types to route to the optional log file. Valid values are
determined by adding numbers together that correspond to the desired
message types. The default value is 15. For more information, see the table in
“The mkvdk utility syntax” on page 142.
Option Description
-extract
Extracts field values from documents, using the field extraction rules specified
in the style.tde file.
-insert
Adds documents to the collection. This is the default option for the mkvdk
command.
-update
Adds documents to the collection by replacing all previous information about
the specified documents.
-delete
Marks the specified documents as deleted, and makes them unavailable for
searches. To actually remove deleted documents from the collection’s internal
documents table and word indexes, use the squeeze keyword (see “About
squeezing deleted documents” on page 152).
Keyword Description