Seen file question(s) with cvt_cyrusdb

[Bill Ryder]

On 08/12/10 13:32, Bill Ryder wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I do this:
>
> cvt_cyrusdb /tech/home/bryder/cyrus/check_seen/bryder.seen.flat  
> /cyrus/cyrusMetadata/user/b/bryder.seen skiplist
>
> And then this:
>
> cvt_cyrusdb /cyrus/cyrusMetadata/user/b/bryder.seen skiplist 
> /tech/home/bryder/cyrus/check_seen/bryder.seen.flat.new flat

OK.

So this gets stranger.

If I have an empty file as my new flat file - the lines remain.

But if I copy /dev/null to the file and then run it the lines are gone.

So I guess cvt_cyrusdb flat does some kind of merge?