On 13/07/04 23.47, Thomas de Klein wrote: [snip] > Add a cronjob like this > > 1 21 1 * * /bin/rm -f $HOME/Mail/Trash && /bin/mv > $HOME/Mail/Trash$(date -d -1month +\%Y\%m) $HOME/Mail/archiv/. && gzip > $HOME/Mail/archiv/Trash$(date -d -1month +\%Y\%m) && touch > $HOME/Mail/Trash$(date +\%Y\%m) && /bin/ln -s $HOME/Mail/Trash$(date > +\%Y\%m) $HOME/Mail/Trash Isn't there a race with creating the new archieve after deleting the link to the old one? If I get the semantics of filesystems, you want touch $HOME/Mail/Trash$(date +\%Y\%m) && /bin/ln -sf $HOME/Mail/Trash$(date +\%Y\%m) $HOME/Mail/Trash && /bin/mv $HOME/Mail/Trash$(date -d -1month +\%Y\%m) \ $HOME/Mail/archiv/. && gzip $HOME/Mail/archiv/Trash$(date -d -1month +\%Y\%m) Notice the -f for /bin/ln to remove the existing file. This way there is no hole in time, where there is no $HOME/Mail/Trash (and mutt or any other program may create in instead of opening the existing file), provided that /bin/ln is able to do it atomically (even if it is not, it is still a much shorter window, relatively). Anyway, just a small nit. HTH & HAND /dossen
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