/usr/local/bin/mhonarc -title "The #soulmates mailing list archive" -force
-idxfname index.html -reverse -outdir
/home/salvo/salvo.reaper.org/data/lists/soulmates
/usr/local/majordomo/lists/soulmates.archive/soulmates.*
Here is what it does:
bin00000.bin bmp00029.bmp bmp00059.bmp bmp00089.bmp bmp00119.bmp
msg00008.html msg00038.html
bmp00000.bmp bmp00030.bmp bmp00060.bmp bmp00090.bmp bmp00120.bmp
msg00009.html msg00039.html
bmp00001.bmp bmp00031.bmp bmp00061.bmp bmp00091.bmp bmp00121.bmp
msg00010.html msg00040.html
bmp00002.bmp bmp00032.bmp bmp00062.bmp bmp00092.bmp bmp00122.bmp
msg00011.html msg00041.html
All of those .bmp files are the same and there are a LOT of them. The script
seems ot be recreating the .bmp file each time it runs. Is there a way to
stop this?
Do a remove of all files (or at least the bmp files) before running
MHonArc. Your invocation of mhonarc causes your archive to be
recreated from scratch. When the bmp data is decoded in the data, the
external filter writes it to a file. To avoid the potential of
clobbering other, in use, external files, the external filter makes
sure to output the data into a new filename.
You can also use -add to avoid the problem, and also get better
performance since already archived messages will be quickly skipped.
--ewh
