Table of Contents
1. Introducing GNATS
1.1 The database paradigm
1.2 Flowchart of GNATS activities
1.3 States of Problem Reports
1.4 Problem Report format
1.4.1 Field datatypes reference
1.4.2 Mail header fields
1.4.3 Problem Report fields
2. The GNATS User Tools
2.1 Environment variables and GNATS tools
2.2 Submitting Problem Reports
2.2.1 Creating new Problem Reports
2.2.2 Using send-pr from within Emacs
2.2.3 Invoking send-pr from the shell
2.2.4 Submitting a Problem Report via direct e-mail
2.2.5 Helpful hints
2.3 Editing existing Problem Reports
2.3.1 Invoking edit-pr from the shell
2.4 Querying the database
2.4.1 Invoking query-pr
2.4.2 Formatting query-pr output
2.4.3 Query expressions
2.4.4 Example queries
2.5 The Emacs interface to GNATS
2.5.1 Viewing Problem Reports
2.5.2 Querying Problem Reports
2.5.3 Submitting new Problem Reports
2.5.4 Editing Problem Reports
2.5.5 The Problem Report editing buffer
2.5.6 Changing the database
2.5.7 dbconfig mode
2.5.8 Other commands
2.5.9 Customization
3. Installing GNATS
3.1 Configuring and compiling the software
3.2 Installing the utilities
3.3 Installing the default database
3.4 Setting up periodic jobs
3.5 Setting up mail aliases
3.6 Installing the daemon
3.7 Installing the user tools
3.8 Upgrading from older versions
3.8.1 Overview
3.8.2 Upgrading
4. GNATS Administration
4.1 Overview of GNATS configuration
4.2 The databases file
4.3 The dbconfig file
4.3.1 Overall database config