Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV

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DO_UNLINKS

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 25 September 2001
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NAME

do_unlinks - execute postponed mirror log NEED TO commands

SYNOPSIS

do_unlinks [-ahnv] [-d<directory>] [...<path>]

DESCRIPTION

do_unlinks is a utility perl script which scans mirror log files for lines starting NEED TO and executes a command to remove a file or subdirectory following on the line.

OPTIONS

-a: Delete directories as well as files (default: delete only files). This should only be used if the tree was mirrored used algorithm 1.
-d dir: Only do deletes within the directory tree dir (Default: /home/ftp/pub/).
-h: Print a help message and do nothing.
-n: List deletes but do nothing (Default: list and do deletes).
path: A path to mirror log files.
-v: Verbose listing.

EXAMPLES

do_unlinks -n /var/log/mirror/*: List all the delete commands found in /var/log/mirror/. The Debian mirror-master control files put the logs of their most recent runs for each mirror package in /var/log/mirror/.

HINTS

The mirror script outputs NEED TO log lines when the number of files or directories it will delete during a run is greater than permitted by its keywords max_delete_files and max_delete_dirs. This can happen if the remote directory tree is changed near its root. Changing the directory tree locally to match the remote instead of using do_deletes will save downloads.