From: Robin Goldstone (robing@llnl.gov)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 13:41:34 CDT
I am having trouble getting hypermail (version 2.1.1 -- I can't get 2.1.2 to
compile on my AIX 4.3.3 system) to correctly update an existing archive. I
initially created the archive from a saved-off mailbox containing a bunch of
messages dated from June 01 through Jun 29. I did this as follows:
hypermail -c .hmrc -m june.archive -l "Blue-Admin Archive for Jun 2001"
My .hmrc file contains this:
dir = /usr/local/admin/ba-archives/%y/%M
dirmode = 0755
filemode = 0644
inline_types = text/*
ignore_types = application/*
ignore_types = image/*
I ran this command mid-afternoon on June 29 and it resulted in creation of an
archive in /usr/local/admin/ba-archive/2001/Jun which looks just fine. It has
messages 0000.html through 0221.html and the appropriate indexes.
Then I set up an automated procedure for updating this archive (and
future archives) nightly from the active mailbox via a nightly cron job. The
cron job looks like this:
YR=`date +%Y`
MON=`date +%b`
HM=/usr/local/bin/hypermail
HMRC=/usr/local/admin/ba-archives/.hmrc
MBOX=/var/spool/mail/blue-admin-archive
# build the hypermail archives
$HM -c $HMRC -m $MBOX -l "Blue-Admin Archive for $MON $YR"
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
rm -f $MBOX
fi
It ran for the first time on June 29 at 11:55 pm. When I checked the next
morning, I found that hypermail had overwritten five of the old messages with
five new ones. In otherwords, the "old" 0000.html through 0005.html were
gone and overwritten with new versions of these files containing messages
from the active mailbox!
I just searched the hypermail mailing list archives and found a message
saying that "-x" is now the default and in order to override this, I have to
explicitly turn off ovewrite via "overwrite = 0" in my .hmrc. So I made this
change and re-ran my update script. However, now hypermail is NOT adding the
new messages to the archive, but it is rewriting the index files as if it
were. In other words, index.html was rewritten with references to only five
messages pointing to 0000.html through 0005.html, yet the actual messages
0000.html through 0005.html are the old (original) versions of these messages.
Neither of these behaviors is what I am after. Perhaps I am misunderstanding
something, but what I expect hypermail to do for an incremental update, is to
add the new messages with UNIQUE message numbers i.e. starting where the old
message numbers left off, and then the indices updated appropriately to
reflect the addition of the new messages.
Can someone tell me how I can accomplish this?
Thank you.
Robin Goldstone
Lawrence Livermore National Lab