In my continuing mission to catch up on old stuff on the mailing list, I've dropped this into the cyrus contrib directory (since I don't really want to do the work to genericify it ;).
Thanks, -Rob On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > --On Thursday, November 07, 2002 21:35:34 -0700 Mark Derbyshire > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > while the SQUAT feature is great, it takes a few hours for squatter to > > grind through the mailboxes. > > The included patch sounds interesting, but I guess I'll wait until it is > incorporated into the standard distribution. > > Anyway, we have come up with a different idea regarding squatter. I am > attaching a Perl script we are using in lieu of an entry in > /etc/cyrus.conf. It is invoked and halted by the following crontab entry > for the cyrus user: > > 0 0-23/4 * * * /usr/libexec/cyrus/squatrunner.pl >> > /var/lib/imap/squatter.log 2>&1 > 0 1-23/4 * * * /bin/touch /var/lib/imap/squat.stop > /dev/null 2>&1 > > It's been working very nicely for us, allowing us to start and stop > squatter whenever we want without having to start at the beginning. > > Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn > -- > Sebastian Hagedorn M.A. - RZKR-R1 (Flachbau), Zi. 18, Robert-Koch-Str. 10 > Zentrum für angewandte Informatik - Universitätsweiter Service RRZK > Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
