[Orca-users] space concerns, gzip, bzip2 or nothing

[Liston Bias]

The version of start_orcallator I am using sets:

  COMPRESSOR="/bin/bzip2 -9"

Do you have bzip2 in that location?  If not, then you could install,
create symlink, or change COMPRESSOR value.

I believe you still will need to go back and compress old files.

I've toyed with the idea of deleting old files on local systems as I
verify presence on central rsync server, but haven't actually implemented.
Has anyone else done this?

Figure it would include a check that RSYNC was successfull.

And then maybe:

for i in `ls -t ${ORCALLATOR_DIR}/${HOSTNAME}/orcallator* | sed -e 1,5d` ; do
     echo "Deleting $1..."
     /bin/rm $1
done

NOTHING above tested/tried...

- Liston


On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Bruce Shaw wrote:
> >
> > I've been using ORCA for about a month and my
> > /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/machinename directory is rapidly filling with
> > files, threatening the sanctity of my /usr filespace.  I'm using
> > orcallator.se on a variety of machines and am confused on how it decided how
> > to compress files.  None of these machines have a COMPRESSOR environmental
> > variable.
>
> Are you running configure on each host separately, or do you
> run configure once and then ship the start_orcallator to each
> system?
>
> If you do the first, then each host will pick its own compression
> scheme.  If you do the second, then you'll have a consistent
> compression scheme, but if the client doesn't have the compression
> program, then the file won't be compressed.
>
> >
> > One machine uses bzip2, most use gzip, but several don't compress at all.
> > I'd like to be consistent.  What is the logic behind this?  Short of
> > setenv-ing COMPRESSOR, is there a way of hard-coding it?
>
> Use one start_orcallator that is configred the way you want it and
> use it on all your clients.
>
> >
> > I'm rdist-ing my data files to a central location and intend to remove any
> > .gz/bz files on the clients, but would also like to reduce the load on the
> > central server.  When is ORCA "finished with" a .gz file so I can archive
> > it?
>
> See question 3.16 in
>
> http://www.orcaware.com/orca/docs/FAQ.html
>
> Best,
> Blair
>
> --
> Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
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