On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 16:10, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:02 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Also, the same applies to
> >
> > /srv/members v. /srv/mail/members
> > and
> > /srv/secretary v. /srv/mail/secretary
> >
> > I assume the old emails from the former directories can just be dropped?
>
> Seems reasonable to me.
>
> > Note: there is a directory /srv/secretary/tlpreq
> > which is a workspace for
> > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tlpreq/input
> >
> > That will need to be kept
>
> It would probably be a better idea to change the code to make and use
> a temporary directory.
Looks like the code already uses a temporary directory when creating
new file entries.
The workspace is needed because the code has to read the files for the
current date.
> Work directories on whimsy-vm1 would
> frequently get 'wedged' (as clr would put it) and would need manual
> intervention to clean up. Any failure with a temporary directory is
> retryable.
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
> > On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 17:33, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 17:29, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:09 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 16:48, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 10:53 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > There are quite a few board@ mails stored under /srv/board. These
> > > > > > > date
> > > > > > > from 201605 to 201705.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Some are duplicates of those under /srv/mail/board but there are
> > > > > > > some
> > > > > > > unique ones, and some are copies sent to whimsy-vm3 for which
> > > > > > > there
> > > > > > > are copies sent to whimsy-vm4.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Do these need to be copied to the new host?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I don't believe so. The new directory is /srv/mail/board.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > How long do board emails need to be kept for use by Whimsy?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > One year (probably best rounded to 13 months). As an example, the
> > > > > > board agenda tool will report whether or not comments made on board
> > > > > > reports within the last year got any responses.
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, so maybe there needs to be a monthly clean-up?
> > > >
> > > > Just for clarity, it would be a good idea to have a cron job that runs
> > > > monthly under the www-data user id that runs something like the
> > > > following logic:
> > > >
> > > > require 'date'
> > > > require 'fileutils'
> > > >
> > > > keep = (Date.today - 365).strftime('%Y-%m')
> > > >
> > > > mail = '/srv/mail'
> > > >
> > > > Dir["#{mail}/board/20*", "#{mail}/members/20*"].each do |dir|
> > > > FileUtils.rm_rf dir unless File.basename(dir) >= keep
> > > > end
> > >
> > > OK, I can set that up.
> > >
> > > What about the secretary emails?
> > > Or do we need to keep those for longer (or forever)?
> > >
> > > > - Sam Ruby
