[Dxspider-support] Remove old spots and data

[Dirk Koopman]

The operating system isn't really relevant here. But you must not remove 
the /spider/data nor the /spider/local_data directories and if you 
remove any of the directories (e.g. log, spots) under these paths the 
behaviour is undefined (at best) and should not be done at run time *at 
all*. In principle you *could* remove old or unused directories at the 
next level down (e.g. /spider/local_data/spots/2021 or 
/spider/data/spots/2021) at any time, but removing a directory that is 
in use (i.e. spots/2022) whilst running would likely cause problems.

Dirk G1TLH

On 31/05/2022 14:02, Anthony (N2KI) via Dxspider-support wrote:
> As a point of interest, on a Windows installation, can we just delete 
> the file folders in the Data folder?
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> Regards,
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> Anthony (N2KI)
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> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 8:06 AM Joaquin via Dxspider-support 
> <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
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>     Always learn something.
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>     Thanks Dirk.
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>     Kin
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>     El 31 may. 2022 13:07, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support
>     <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> escribió:
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>         On 31/05/2022 11:56, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
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>             spawn("find /spider/local_data/logs -type f -mtime +62
>             -exec rm -f {} \;").
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>         is actually wrong, because the \; is required by the
>         underlying shell that spawn runs the find command in,  and
>         should be \\; if using " as the quoting character for the
>         spawn().
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>         This is a one of those perl quoting conundrums. This is
>         probably better quoted like this:
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>         spawn('find /spider/local_data/logs -type f -mtime +62 -exec
>         rm -f {} \;').
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>         spawn(q[find /spider/local_data/logs -type f -mtime +62 -exec
>         rm -f {} \;]).
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>         sorry about that.
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>         Dirk G1TLH
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