On Fri, Oct 23, 2015, at 13:11, Nicola Nye wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been cleaning up the docs and I think I can remove a Tools and > Utilities page > (https://docs.cyrus.foundation/imap/admin/administration-tools.html) > because Nic (onlight) has properly written up all the content elsewhere. > > However I wanted to check before hit the big red delete button, that the > entries we don't already have documented are safe to be removed. > > arbitronsort.pl
I don't think anyone uses arbitron any more, though it's still in the source. > convert-sieve.pl Fixes on-disk naming for altnamespace, Yuck. Probably bogus. > cvt_cyrusdb > cvt_cyrusdb_all These are pretty much covered by Cyrus doing the convert itself during load these days. > cyrdump really simple backup format. As far as I can see, there's no inverse that parses them. > cyr_sequence debug tool for seqset - but kind of useful for resolving sequences too: brong@bat:~/src/cyrus-imapd$ /usr/cyrus/bin/cyr_sequence parsed 1,3,4,5 Sections: 2 [1, 1] [3, 5] brong@bat:~/src/cyrus-imapd$ /usr/cyrus/bin/cyr_sequence compress 1,3,4,5 1,3:5 brong@bat:~/src/cyrus-imapd$ /usr/cyrus/bin/cyr_sequence members 1,23:25,28,30:32 1 23 24 25 28 30 31 32 > cyr_userseen for cleaning up user seen files after an upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4. Don't know that it's ever actually been used. > masssievec - Script to mass compile Sieve scripts We don't use it, but it might be useful. > migrate-metadata Tool for converting to split metadata. Again, you can do this and it's handy to have. It's a small perl script, to the point that I would just write it myself (and have, a couple of times) > mknewsgroups News stuff - people still use it. > rehash A bigger perl script to deal with changing hashimapspool config. > translatesieve - script to translate sieve scripts to use unixhierarchysep > and/or altnamespace ANOTHER sieve thing, woot. Looks like a smarter/more complete version of convert-sieve.pl. > undohash -absolutely ancient (downgrade to prior 1.6.2+), probably > should be obsoleted entirely > upgradesieve - absolutely ancient (upgrade from 1.6.13), probably should > be obsoleted entirely Yeah, they can probably go. > Are these scripts obsolete? Have they been removed from the source? > > If they're still in use - what do they do? "in use" is kind of arbitrary. They're good starting points for doing upgrades or system config changes. They certainly don't get used by everyone every day, and they may not be correct. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana br...@fastmail.fm
