The rmdo command deletes one or more derived objects (DOs). Use rmdo to remove DOs (for example, damaged DOs or DOs that were built incorrectly) so that other users do not use them inadvertently.
Note: This command does not apply to snapshot views.
The details of the removal process depend on the kind of DO (use lsdo –long to determine the kind of DO):
Caution: If you need to remove a shared DO, use lsdo –long to identify the views that reference the DO. Ask the owner of each view to remove the DO from the view with an operating system command or by running make clean or an equivalent command. If the DO is not removed from the referencing views before you use rmdo, error messages appear. For example, when users try to access the DO from the referencing views, the view_server logs VOB warnings. Also, you may see INTERNAL ERROR messages in the ClearCase error_log file; these messages are generated when clearmake or an OS-level command tries to access the DO. The derived object's name is removed from the directory by the OS-level access; thus, subsequent accesses return not found errors.
In each case, rmdo also deletes the associated configuration record if it is no longer needed. Both of the following conditions must be true:
rmdo does not delete DO versions. To delete a DO that has been checked in as a version of an element, use rmver.
ClearCase includes a utility, scrubber, that deletes shareable DOs. scrubber deletes the entries in the VOB database and (for shared DOs) the data containers in the VOB's storage pools. By default, the ClearCase scheduler runs scrubber periodically. See the schedule reference page for information on describing and changing scheduled jobs.
Each DO pool has scrubbing parameters, which you can modify with the mkpool –update command.
You must have one of the following identities:
To delete a shared DO, you must have one of the following identities:
An error occurs if one or more of these objects are locked: VOB, pool.
(Replicated VOBs only) No mastership restrictions.
To determine the DO IDs of derived objects, use lsdo.
The date-time argument can have any of the following formats:
date.time | date | time |now where:
Specify time in 24-hour format, relative to the local time zone. If you omit the time, the default value is 00:00:00. If you omit date, the default is today. If you omit the century, year, or a specific date, the most recent one is used. Specify UTC if you want to resolve the time to the same moment in time regardless of time zone. Use the plus (+) or minus (-) operator to specify a positive or negative offset to the UTC time. If you specify UTC without hour or minute offsets, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is used. (Dates before January 1, 1970 Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) are invalid.)
The UNIX examples in this section are written for use in csh. If you use another shell, you may need to use different quoting and escaping conventions.
The Windows examples that include wildcards or quoting are written for use in cleartool interactive mode. If you use cleartool single-command mode, you may need to change the wildcards and quoting to make your command interpreter process the command appropriately.
In cleartool single-command mode, cmd-context represents the UNIX shell or Windows command interpreter prompt, followed by the cleartool command. In cleartool interactive mode, cmd-context represents the interactive cleartool prompt.
cmd-context rmdo –zero hworld
Removed derived object "hworld/hello.o@@23-Mar.20:42.373".
Removed derived object "hworld/hello.o@@23-Mar.20:36.228".
Removed derived object "hworld/hello@@23-Mar.20:42.382".
Removed derived object "hworld/hello@@23-Mar.20:36.234".
Removed derived object "hworld/util.o@@23-Mar.20:42.376".
Removed derived object "hworld/util.o@@23-Mar.20:36.231".
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