squatrunner.txt

Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 15:46:42 +0100
From: Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@uni-koeln.de>
To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Squatter streamlining patch

--On Thursday, November 07, 2002 21:35:34 -0700 Mark Derbyshire
<mark@taom.com> 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
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