-begins with
-\fIdbopen\.\fR, the string following the period is a program name and an
-\fIAmanda\fR
-debug file will be created for the caller\. The name of the file is returned\.
+is a configuration keyword (from
+\fBamanda.conf\fR(5)), then amgetconf will return the corresponding value\&. For keywords which can take multiple values, amgetconf will return all values, one on each line\&.
+.PP
+Values in configuration subsections are specified with parameters of the form
+TYPE:NAME:PARAMETER, where
+TYPE
+is the subsection type (one of
+dumptype,
+tapetype,
+interface,
+holdingdisk,
+application\-tool, or
+script\-tool;
+NAME
+is the name of the subsection (e\&.g\&.,
+user\-tar), and
+PARAMETER
+is the name of the disired parameter within that subsection\&.
+.PP
+The
+\-\-list
+option lists the subsections of a certain type, where the type is givein as the parameter\&.
+.PP
+The
+\-\-client
+option is equivalent to
+\-\-execute\-where server
+(below)\&.
+.PP
+The
+\-\-execute\-where
+option tells amgetconf whether to operate on the client or the server; the server is the default\&.
+.SS "BUILD CONFIGURATION"