Squatter streamlining patch

[Rob Siemborski]

In my continuing mission to catch up on old stuff on the mailing list,
I've dropped this into the cyrus contrib directory (since I don't really
want to do the work to genericify it ;).

Thanks,
-Rob

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> --On Thursday, November 07, 2002 21:35:34 -0700 Mark Derbyshire
> <mark at taom.com> wrote:
>
> > while the SQUAT feature is great, it takes a few hours for squatter t=
o
> > grind through the mailboxes.
>
> The included patch sounds interesting, but I guess I'll wait until it i=
s
> incorporated into the standard distribution.
>
> Anyway, we have come up with a different idea regarding squatter. I am
> attaching a Perl script we are using in lieu of an entry in
> /etc/cyrus.conf. It is invoked and halted by the following crontab entr=
y
> for the cyrus user:
>
> 0  0-23/4  *  *  *  /usr/libexec/cyrus/squatrunner.pl >>
> /var/lib/imap/squatter.log 2>&1
> 0  1-23/4  *  *  *  /bin/touch /var/lib/imap/squat.stop > /dev/null 2>&=
1
>
> It's been working very nicely for us, allowing us to start and stop
> squatter whenever we want without having to start at the beginning.
>
> Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn
> --
> Sebastian Hagedorn M.A. - RZKR-R1 (Flachbau), Zi. 18, Robert-Koch-Str. =
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