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

[Douglas Valkenaar]

At 11:15 AM 11/26/01, you wrote:
>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.

I presume that's *instead* of running the perpetual 'orca'.  If that's the
case, isn't this less efficient?  I presume so and that this is simply a
short-term work-around until one of us can fix the root problem.