On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:31:49AM +0000, James Troup wrote: > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - Change paths to config files in utils.py. > > Sigh, you don't need to do that. See /etc/katie/katie.cnf on > e.g. auric.
I don't have the config files installed in /etc yet. > > - rose creates initial directories (actually some where missing; I can't > > remember which onces were missing and which ones were misconfigured > > though now). > > rose uses the provided config file; it'd be hard for her to "misconfigure" a > directory An example: $ftpmaster/indices was not created. > Huh? I don't think you mean melanie, she doesn't delete files. Yes, I was confused. The program which does delete the files though complians (I can't remember the name off hand). > You seem to be making a fundamental mistake: cron.daily, katie.conf, > apt.conf etc. are all not the best files to start from, they're > ftp-master's real config file. I know that's non-intuitive but that's > just how it is always been hysterically. Don't start from them and > don't assume they're some kind of example to build from. If anything > the security ones are a far better example in many ways. And that is documented where??? > > - cron.buildd is for buildd, I don't know where to get wanna-build from > > so I don't use it. > > Again, you obviously didn't look it's utterly trivial to find. Errr... I did a google search, I search packages.debian.org, I searched cvs.debian.org, where else? > WTH are you talking about? required for what? cron.hourly simply > runs julia which syncs postgresql ideas of users and the systems which > is useful if you're using postgresql's 'peer sameuser' (or whatever > it's called these days) access control on a multi-user system. If > you're not, then it's not "required". I meant "not required" as in the context of private archives. > > > - cron.weekly might be important, but I don't understand what it does. > > Dude, it's 8 or so lines of shell script with comments. Where's the > difficulty? > > | # Purge empty directories > | > | [...] > | > | # Clean up apt-ftparchive's databases Err because I think apt-ftparchive database is the Packages.gz and Source.gz files, right? What does it mean to clean these files up? > > - cron.daily is pretty verbose. > > IT'S NOT AN EXAMPLE FILE, IT'S AURIC'S AND WE LIKE IT TO BE VERBOSE. I don't know why you a being so hostile. I seem to be getting a clear signal back that you are not interested with the feedback I am giving, and that you would rather I didn't try. In which case, it may be best if I go back to using my home-made scripts. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>