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Subject: Re: [9fans] skulker
From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:21:04 -0700
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/mail/grey should ideally be stored in an other file system or
something similar (ramfs, DMTMP).  It should be cleared out daily so
that legitimate callers get a chance to try again, even if their
calling behaviour is odd:

17 2 * * *	cpu	cd /mail/grey && rm -rf *.*.*.*

I store some of the logs in /sys/log in /n/other/log and do this nightly:

50 4 * * *	cpu	cd /n/other/log && chop cron cs dns ipboot runq timesync

where /rc/bin/chop is:

#!/bin/rc
# chop file ... - truncate append-only files
for (f) {
	chmod -a $f
	>$f
	chmod +a $f
}

In /cron/upas/cron, I run:

3,13,23,33,43,53 * * * *	cpu	/sys/lib/fax/faxtickle; echo -n reload >/mail/ratify/ctl

Once a month, I regenerate manual indices:

30 4 1 * *	cpu	cd /sys/man && mk indices

Once a night I ran a script that runs calendar, pull -n, and:

	du -af /n/other >/n/other/du/other

which serves as the basis for a very simple `locate' command.