On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Dave Wolfe wrote:
> [ Brock Rozen writes: ]
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Robert Byers wrote:
> >
> > > If I didn't create the two soft links, either mkdigest would fail
> > > ("invalid directory"), or incoming posts would fail to be written to a
> > > directory (which one fails depends on which directories exist)
> >
> > You're creating the wrong directories, that's why it failed without the
> > soft links. But you don't need the place where they lead to. The soft
> > links need to be real directories and the original directories don't need
> > to be there at all.
>
> Except that Robert is using both digest and archive2.pl, so both archive
> directories must exist the way he has things configured. Robert, don't
> confuse list archives (maintained by archive2.pl and queried by 'get'
> and 'index' commands) with digest "archives" (created and used by
> digest, but are only temporary). They aren't the same thing and you
> shouldn't be using the same directory for both.
Dave,
Thanks for this very informative info!! Very clear and to the point!! Now I
see my wayward ways! Indeed, I was confusing archive2.pl and the "archive"
directories used by digest.
Armed with your insight, I was able to rectify the situation in no time
at all!
All I had to do was change my call to archive2.pl to:
"|/opt/mjd/wrapper archive2.pl -f /opt/mjd/lists/bblist.archive/bblist -m -a"
and make sure the following directories existed:
~mjd/spool/bblist #used by digest for temp storage
~mjd/lists/bblist-digest.archive #used by digest
~mjd/lists/bblist.archive #used by archive2.pl
Actually, an additional change I made was digest_work_dir = $homedir/spool,
(removed the trailing digests/) But this change had no impact on fixing the
problem, it only removed an unnecessary subdirectory level.
I got rid of those soft links mentioned in my original post.
That's all I had to do.
Thanks again!
-Bob Byers
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA 02115
rbyers@hsph.harvard.edu
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