[1256] in Release_Engineering
fileserver cleanup scripts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Jun 27 19:58:33 1989
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 19:58:17 -0400
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: jis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Beth Levles recently said in cfyi:
>According to Jeff Schiller, the scripts that do automatic removal of
>those files marked for deletion (both by delete and rmm) are not yet
>running on any of the file servers. Therefore, users will have to use
>expunge and purge explicitly, and we should tell them so.
>
>We do not yet know when the shell scripts will be running. Probably not
>very soon.
I hope this isn't the whole story. I was under the impression that
the decision to make the NFS fileservers run # and .# cleanups was
made *before* I was given the go-ahead to finish delete.
One of the major advantages of delete is that users really shouldn't
have to worry about it unless they need to recover something. If they
have to run expunge and purge explicitly, then delete is more trouble
than it's worth, and many people will switch back to rm, and files
will continue to be lost accidentally.
John Carr says he's working on a crontab file for the fileservers
which he says will be installed by the end of the summer, supposedly.
Is this correct. Basically, what I'm asking is, "What's the story
here?"
jik
