Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
On 6/28/2005 10:16 PM Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: It looks, i'm not sure, like they're not vaild file names. They appear like valid filenames to me (and like the names you get with courier for messages) The issue is that tar is getting a file list and then the user is downloading (POP) or deleting or changing the status of a message (like reading it -- the filename itself encodes the read, deleted, etc status of a message) before tar actually archives it. Or something like that. The file system is changing out from underneath the OP. make a snapshot first if this is an issue. Chad Thank you and Norberto for your replies. Your explanations make sense for most cases but I don't think it applies to mine. This is a small home system and the only mail users are myself and my wife. Thus I had the luxury of stopping courier-imap and trying tar again. Same errors. Also, I don't think I can make a snapshot since I am on version 4.11. Ironically, I'm trying to get good backups so I can blow away my system and install version 5.4. :) Any other ideas? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:45:11AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Any other ideas? Any Windows shares involved? m ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thank you and Norberto for your replies. np :) Your explanations make sense for most cases but I don't think it applies to mine. This is a small home system and the only mail users are myself and my wife. Thus I had the luxury of stopping courier-imap and trying tar again. Same errors. - are the missing files the same every time you run the script / tar ? - what does ls -la ./user/Maildir/.Trash/cur/ show? - could it be the fact that those file names contain : ? i dont think so, but it's worth giving it a try. If it is, u may want to check if it's a tar problem or a shell problem, in which case u may be able to change the default list delimiter to see if it makes any difference (i dont see why it $IFS would affect this..but ) let us know how it goes, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
I used the following tar command to copy a file hierarchy: tar cfp - -C /home . | tar xfpv - . However when I hit user maildirs, many files get copied but I also get a lot of errors such as these: ./user/Maildir/.Trash/cur/1113462063.17964_0.blacklamb.mykitchentable.net:2,S tar: ./user/Maildir/.Trash/cur/1113462063.17964_0.blacklamb.mykitchentable.net\:2,S: Cannot open: No such file or directory I use Courier IMAP 4.0.1,1 installed from ports if it makes any difference. As far as I can tell, IMAP is working just fine. Clients connect, get their messages, etc. Any ideas on why there are so many files that don't exist? And what is a good way to clean up my disk? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
It looks, i'm not sure, like they're not vaild file names. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
On 6/28/2005 8:35 PM Nikolas Britton wrote: It looks, i'm not sure, like they're not vaild file names. OK, that might be. But then the question is why does tar try to copy those files if they are not valid?. I assume tar is reading the directory structure and finding those file names as I'm not specifying them directly. Any ideas? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 22:43, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 6/28/2005 8:35 PM Nikolas Britton wrote: It looks, i'm not sure, like they're not vaild file names. OK, that might be. But then the question is why does tar try to copy those files if they are not valid?. I assume tar is reading the directory structure and finding those file names as I'm not specifying them directly. Any ideas? Thanks, Drew Perhaps the user issuing the 'tar' command does not have read access to these files and directories. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I used the following tar command to copy a file hierarchy: tar cfp - -C /home . | tar xfpv - . However when I hit user maildirs, many files get copied but I also get a lot of errors such as these: ./user/Maildir/.Trash/cur/1113462063.17964_0.blacklamb.mykitchentable.net:2,S tar: ./user/Maildir/.Trash/cur/1113462063.17964_0.blacklamb.mykitchentable.net\:2,S: Cannot open: No such file or directory I've seen this happen many times, not related to one particular app, but always with temporary filenames / very transient filenames ( /proc/PID/, etc). I dont' know for sure, but I would say that there's a short lag between tar getting the list of files to process and actually working on them. By the time it gets to them, they are gone. If you need to get a snapshot of a filesystem in a coherent form you need to make sure it doesnt change from under you - check the snapshot functionality in 5.x, or go single user or stop those processes creating temp files, which may not be an option. I suggest u ignore those messages. HTH, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: It looks, i'm not sure, like they're not vaild file names. They appear like valid filenames to me (and like the names you get with courier for messages) The issue is that tar is getting a file list and then the user is downloading (POP) or deleting or changing the status of a message (like reading it -- the filename itself encodes the read, deleted, etc status of a message) before tar actually archives it. Or something like that. The file system is changing out from underneath the OP. make a snapshot first if this is an issue. Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
