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

[Blair Zajac]

Douglas Valkenaar wrote:
> 
> 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.

That's right.  It is less efficient and a work around.  The other solution
is to comment out the email setting in Orca's configuration file.

Best,
Blair

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