[Orca-users] Re: Nightly "did exist and is now gone" email messages

[Blair Zajac]

Douglas Valkenaar wrote:
> 
> At 10:16 PM 11/24/01, you wrote:
> >Blair,
> >
> >     Just to confirm what Allen Eastwood said with
> >regards to getting the nightly "did exist and is now
> >gone" email messages.  I ran orca from withing a
> >crontab and the messages go away.  I'm running orca
> >under Solaris 8 with SEToolKit version 3.2.1.
> 
> I'm sorry but I'm not sure exactly what's being suggested here.  Restart
> orca every few minutes within crontab and only run once?  Could you let me
> know the details and I'll give it a try.
> 
> Sorry if I'm a little dense today - quite stuffed with turkey!!

Yes, just add a cron entry to run Orca every hour or so and make sure you
use the -o command line option so that Orca quits when it's done.  You
don't want to spawn an infinite number of Orca's over time.

Best,
Blair

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