Wwwoffle has been a part of the SuSE Linux distrubutions since a few
years. I have used it with Linux 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1. SuSE has made some
minor changes in the standard configuration, but everything always
worked as expected. Linux 7.1 comes with wwwoffle 2.6.
However, I got an unpleasant surprise after I updated to Linux 7.1
about a week ago. A few days later, I got a mail telling me that
most of my cache (which happened to be just a copy of the old cache)
had been purged.
Reason: the rpm-file supplied by SuSE contains following script,
which is installed in /etc/cron.weekly :
#!/bin/sh
#
# purge the wwwoffle cache directory according to
# the parameters defined in /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf
#
if [ -x /usr/bin/wwwoffle ] ; then
/sbin/checkproc /usr/sbin/wwwoffled && \
/usr/bin/wwwoffle -purge -c /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf
else
exit 0
fi
The standard configuration supplied by SuSE has in the purge-
section: age=28
Consequence: all files older than 28 days are purged weekly.
My advice to SuSE users, who do NOT want their wwwoffle-cache
purged:
(1) delete the file "wwwoffle" in /etc/cron.weekly
(2) change "age = 28" to "age = -1"
After step (1), step (2) should not be necessary, but
I would be rather be safe than sorry .....
Regards,
Fred
