Patrick Bogen sent the message below at 08:18 4/7/2006: >On 4/6/06, Dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So if you decided 500 was a good number to index, for the first chunk > > you would do: > > > > bin/arch --wipe --start=1 --end=500 listname > > > > For subsequent chunks you would do (adjusting the start and end > > indexes of course...): > > > > bin/arch --start=501 --end=1000 listname > > > >Bash can do this for you: > >#!/bin/bash >bin/arch --wipe >for i in `seq 0 10` >do > bin/arch --start=$(( 1+$i*500 )) --end=$(( 500+$i*500 )) listname >done > >...Assuming that bin/arch --wipe alone does what I think it does. >Also, if you have more than 5500 messages in the mbox file, you'll >need to adjust the second argument in the 'seq' upwards. And, of >course, replace 'listname' with the list name. ---------------- End original message. ---------------------
Or Perl or Python or whatever your favorite scripting language might be... But that's just icing on the cake and not really a necessity. The --wipe argument deletes all the old files and builds new ones. Which is great but ii did have one unfortunate consequence for me. I am using htdig to allow search of my archives and when I rebuilt the archives after editing the templates and installing htdig, all of the file dates on the messages were set to the date I rebuilt the archive. This destroyed the date context for the archive and the file dates displayed by the htdig search were not reflecting when the message was originally posted. So, I wrote a small Perl script to "fix" the file dates to match the message date in each of the message files. If anyone is interested in that script, I would be happy to share it with you. Just e-mail me directly and I will send it to you. Dragon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp