def startService(self):
"""
Start the database service.
"""
# start processing logfd messages
self._logfd = LogFD()
self._logfd.startReading()
# open the db environment
self._env = Env(self._dbdir, self._options)
logger.debug("[%s] opened database environment in %s" % (self.name,self._dbdir))
Plugin.startService(self)
