Re: Auto Delete EmailCompleted Files
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2002
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 45659
interpreted = N
texte = I'm cautious about removing a preference in WebDNA with a blank entry .. Emailer must try and write the file each time and error internally.Call me paranoid but I would rather it wrote them and I use a cron shell script to remove them at night .. Move the directory, recreate it and delete .. Takes about 1 second with 12k emails in the folder ..#!/bin/shcd /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/WebCatalogEngine mv EmailCompleted EmailCompleted.old mkdir EmailCompleted chown www:www * chmod 700 EmailCompleted rm -R EmailCompleted.old> on 11/22/02 7:05 PM, Alain Russell at alain.russell@blackpepper.co.nz wrote: > >> Why keep them at all - we delete them every night .. > curious though,. If there is no reason to keep these at all, why go through > the trouble of using triggers to delete them, as well as the cpu/IO to first > write them, and then delete them. > > Why not keep the completed directory empty and let emailer never save the > completed emails to begin with? > > Did i miss something? > Alex > > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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I'm cautious about removing a preference in WebDNA with a blank entry .. Emailer must try and write the file each time and error internally.Call me paranoid but I would rather it wrote them and I use a cron shell script to remove them at night .. Move the directory, recreate it and delete .. Takes about 1 second with 12k emails in the folder ..#!/bin/shcd /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/WebCatalogEngine mv EmailCompleted EmailCompleted.old mkdir EmailCompleted chown www:www * chmod 700 EmailCompleted rm -R EmailCompleted.old> on 11/22/02 7:05 PM, Alain Russell at alain.russell@blackpepper.co.nz wrote: > >> Why keep them at all - we delete them every night .. > curious though,. If there is no reason to keep these at all, why go through > the trouble of using triggers to delete them, as well as the cpu/IO to first > write them, and then delete them. > > Why not keep the completed directory empty and let emailer never save the > completed emails to begin with? > > Did i miss something? > Alex > > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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