[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fred Weijs) wrote:
> 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 :
> The standard configuration supplied by SuSE has in the purge-
> section: age=28
>
> Consequence: all files older than 28 days are purged weekly.
The 28 day purge is the default value in the wwwoffle.conf file that
comes with the WWWOFFLE source code (actually it is 4w in version 2.6).
> 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 .....
My advice is rather different to this:
(1) Change "age = 28" to "age = -1"
(2) Always use the upgrade-config.pl script to update your WWWOFFLE
configuration file
(3) Don't bother to delete the file "wwwoffle" in /etc/cron.weekly
because it will be re-installed when you upgrade WWWOFFLE.
Also the purge will remove any junk that has accumulated in the rare
case that WWWOFFLE crashed and left a mess behind.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.6/user.html
