Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 15:46:42 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Squatter streamlining patch --On Thursday, November 07, 2002 21:35:34 -0700 Mark Derbyshire 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