----- Original Message ----- From: "Earl Hood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 7:04 PM Subject: Re: Request for more options in resurce file
> The next release will give you something somewhat related to what > you are stating: the DBFILE will support an absolute pathname, allowing > you to place an archive's DBFILE outside of the web-accessible area. > (btw, you may want to see > <http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/security.html>) Great - i'am looking forward to that release > Now I see what you are getting at. > > An initial issue is how to deal with LOCKFILE. Is LOCKFILE relative > to where DBFILE is, or is it relative to where OUTDIR is? For example, > take the case where someone decides to put all db files in one directory: > > /path/to/dbfiles/ > .list1.db > .list2.db > .list2.db > ... > > and does (use bash shell syntax), > > for i in .*.db; do; mhonarc -add -dbfile $i done > > This case would imply that LOCKFILE shold be relative to OUTDIR > to avoid it bottlenecking processing of multiple archives in parallel. > For example: > > for i in .*.db; do; mhonarc -add -dbfile $i & done Well LOCKFILE name = [DBFILE name ].lockfile - or just lockfile in OUTDIR ( HTML files ) , it would break any setup to use the same OUTDIR for 2 or more lists that runs in parallel. > > That was not the question - IF i use mhonarc -rmm 1-3 , the old messages > > 1-3 don't popup at a new scan > > Is the removed messageID not stored in some way by mhonarc ? > > It is not stored anywhere, but it would be nice if it did. > A limitation is if you do an archive rebuild since the deleted id info > will be lost, and if the undesired raw mail has not been removed also, > they will reappear after a rebuild. Strange - it works :-) I need to extract the messageID from the mailbox arkive - extract the messageID (that's easy) from out dir - compare the 2 lists to get the removed messageID's. > A solution is to store in deleted message ids in a separate file and > not use DBFILE. Hence, on a rebuild, the file can still be read > to determine which messages should be skipped. That will be the solution for me - It sound like a bullet proff thing to do .. Birger Mortenen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE MHONARC-USERS
