On Monday 24 Apr 2006 22:35, Steve Basford wrote: > Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > > I've atached my updated Perl script. It will now check the compressed > > archive, and if it is updated download and upcompress it. > > Thank you! > > I'll sort out the website tomorrow hopefully, with some of sample > "recommended" scripts. > > Cheers, > > Steve
I've been 'messing around' some. I note that the file inside the .gz is called phishc.ndb If I unpack it with gunzip -N phish.ndb.gz I get phishc.ndb with its timestamp intact, which is what I want, so that the various servers fetching from my copy can make decisions about wether or not to fetch it. Steve, is it your intention to name the file inside the .gz phishc.ndb, consistently, so I can script on that basis? using the --stdout method results in a new timestamp. For me that is confounding. using -N saves the original, if I run # copy the original to .old cp -fp phish.ndb phish.ndb.old # put the .gz in a tmp file for restoration later cp -p phish.ndb.gz phish.ndb.gz.tmp # unzip, preserving timestamp of the file inside gunzip -N phish.ndb.gz # move the new file into place mv -f phishc.ndb phish.ndb # restore the .gz so that it's presence can be detected next time mv phish.ndb.gz.tmp phish.ndb.gz (surrounding the above with checks for existence etc) then I should be in the same position I was before this .gz idea and I won't have to go and change a number of other scripts. ;-) There must be quite a few people who have multiple servers to stock, this way they only fetch it once and can propagate by whichever means they like, while minimising the load/bandwidth on sanesecurity. This works with Chris Candreva's perl script Phish.pl and should work with any other method, it's the timestamp preservation that is crucial. HTH -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com ----------------- _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
