Williams, Paul wrote: >I noticed that we are gzipping the archive files, nightly >with > >27 3 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /opt/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip > >but it also leaves a copy of the uncompressed archives. > >Is this the proper behavior?
It is what it is designed to do. >Is it possible to only have the gzipped archives and not >the text files? Yes, but you have to do it outside of Mailman. E.g., set up a cron to run on say the 3rd day of the month that runs a script that removes the .txt files for the prior month. There is a small risk to this for the same reason you can't remove the current month's .txt file. If a post arrives for a month whose .txt file is missing, it will create a new .txt file containing only that post, and that file will be gzipped on the next nightly gzip (or immediately if GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES = Yes in mm_cfg.py), thus losing the prior contents of the .gz file. Of course, everything is still in the list.mbox/list.mbox file, so it isn't completely lost, but it's awkward. >If I comment out the above nightly_gzip line will it >cause a problem? No. If there is no .txt.gz file, the archive link will be to the .txt file. The only reason to have the .txt.gz files is to reduce the size of the file(s) a user may download, but with many web servers configured to expand .gz files before serving them, this is not a consideration. Of course, the .gz files do save space on the server, but only if the .txt files are removed which isn't too practical as I note above. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
