Unless their configuration files (i.e. .paprc files) were special files
or zero length, they shouldn't have gotten removed by checkpc (at least
not as it stands in version 3.6.22). However, only looking for what you
know you created in there probably does make sense. Ah, well - so much
for my hope to get a patch credit in the CHANGES file. I'll just have to
keep looking for easy little tidbits :-)
--
Bill Knox
Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
The MITRE Corporation
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>
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 28 11:00:43 2000
> > Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:26:29 -0400
> > From: "William R. Knox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: LPRng: Problem with checkpc
> >
> > In LPRng-3.6.22, I still have a problem with mildly over-aggressive
> > behavior in checkpc. Specifically, I have a character special file in
> > many queues (a null device) which I use in conjunction with Netatalk
> > filtering and printing. When I run checkpc -A [time] -r -Pqueuename, it
> > removes the null device from inside the queue.
> >
> > A check in checkpc looks to see if a file is zero length and will then
> > remove it if it is older than the time set in the A flag, but doesn't
> > confirm that it is a regular file. The following simple patch will fix
> > that, and has been checked on Solaris 2.6 (and I at least examined the
> > man page for stat on Linux and confirmed that it has the s_IFREG and
> > S_IFMT constants defined):
> >
>
> I have also got email from somebody using 'netatalk' to communicate
> with their printers and they pointed out that I am removing the
> configuration files from the directory also.
>
> So I have modified the behaviour to only remove temp files and
> job files created by LPRng and ifhp. If you have other files,
> then you will need to write your own 'cron cleanup'. I think this
> is a pretty good solution as it now allows you to put just about
> anything in there... Watch out for 'checkpc -f' still - it will
> brutally change permissions still.
>
> Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
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