* Re: [9fans] rotating one's mbox
2003-09-04 15:33 [9fans] rotating one's mbox matt
@ 2003-09-04 14:40 ` David Presotto
2003-09-04 16:33 ` matt
2003-09-04 15:51 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-09-05 1:32 ` boyd, rounin
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Presotto @ 2003-09-04 14:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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yes. what exactly are you trying to do, i.e., why rotate your mailbox.
You'ld be better off with a pipeto that just sticks your mail into a
mailbox of the correct date in the first place. Or you could just run
upas/fs and copy the raw files out into a mailbox and then remove them.
Something like:
upas/fs
cd /mail/fs/mbox
x=`{echo *}
> /whatever/mbox.$datum
for(i in $x){
{ cat $i/unixheader; cat $i/raw; echo }>>/whatever/mbox.$datum
echo delete $i > /mail/fs/ctl
}
Then at least you're safe, so to speak.
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From: matt@proweb.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] rotating one's mbox
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:33:24 -0400
Message-ID: <d6fb55e7d310d4373abc69ba3efc7d1e@juice.thebigchoice.com>
is it worth worrying about the tiny window of opportunity for a mail to arrive while I have no mailbox?
cd /mail/box/$user/
datum = `{cat /dev/time | awk ' { print $1}'}
mv mbox mbox.$datum
# a mail could arrive now
upas/nedmail -c
chmod -al mbox.$datum
And : is the strategy for people running dump any different?
Matt
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* [9fans] rotating one's mbox
@ 2003-09-04 15:33 matt
2003-09-04 14:40 ` David Presotto
` (2 more replies)
0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: matt @ 2003-09-04 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
is it worth worrying about the tiny window of opportunity for a mail to arrive while I have no mailbox?
cd /mail/box/$user/
datum = `{cat /dev/time | awk ' { print $1}'}
mv mbox mbox.$datum
# a mail could arrive now
upas/nedmail -c
chmod -al mbox.$datum
And : is the strategy for people running dump any different?
Matt
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* Re: [9fans] rotating one's mbox
2003-09-04 15:33 [9fans] rotating one's mbox matt
2003-09-04 14:40 ` David Presotto
@ 2003-09-04 15:51 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-09-05 1:32 ` boyd, rounin
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Fco.J.Ballesteros @ 2003-09-04 15:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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I'm running dump, but I do not rotate my mbox at all. Actually, our
mailboxes are not in a dumped file system, if any user wants to dump his/her
mail it suffices to store the mails in folders residing in a dumped file system.
hth
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From: matt@proweb.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] rotating one's mbox
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:33:24 -0400
Message-ID: <d6fb55e7d310d4373abc69ba3efc7d1e@juice.thebigchoice.com>
is it worth worrying about the tiny window of opportunity for a mail to arrive while I have no mailbox?
cd /mail/box/$user/
datum = `{cat /dev/time | awk ' { print $1}'}
mv mbox mbox.$datum
# a mail could arrive now
upas/nedmail -c
chmod -al mbox.$datum
And : is the strategy for people running dump any different?
Matt
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* Re: [9fans] rotating one's mbox
2003-09-04 14:40 ` David Presotto
@ 2003-09-04 16:33 ` matt
2003-09-08 9:09 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: matt @ 2003-09-04 16:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>what exactly are you trying to do, i.e., why rotate your mailbox.
I'm just looking to keep upas/fs & faces speedy
copy & delete looks the superior method, thanks
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* Re: [9fans] rotating one's mbox
2003-09-04 15:33 [9fans] rotating one's mbox matt
2003-09-04 14:40 ` David Presotto
2003-09-04 15:51 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
@ 2003-09-05 1:32 ` boyd, rounin
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: boyd, rounin @ 2003-09-05 1:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> is it worth worrying about the tiny window of opportunity for a mail to arrive
while I have no mailbox?
yes, as the RX02 (iirc) manual said:
violation of protcol can result in permanent data loss
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* Re: [9fans] rotating one's mbox
2003-09-04 16:33 ` matt
@ 2003-09-08 9:09 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Douglas A. Gwyn @ 2003-09-08 9:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
matt@pc1-nott2-3-cust18.nott.cable.ntl.com wrote:
> I'm just looking to keep upas/fs & faces speedy
> copy & delete looks the superior method, thanks
It's hard to see how an incorrect algorithm can be
"superior" just because it's faster.
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