Re: Monthly mailing list archives: monthly-ml-tasks

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Jason Molenda wrote:
>>   5 6 1 * * cd /sourceware/infra/monthly-ml-tasks; exec ./DOIT.sh
>>
>> Indeed, this job is run on the first day of the month, at 6:05.  Are
>> there any objections if I move this to 0:07?
> Unless I'm remembering incorrectly, there is a entry for root which
> HUPs apache a little while after the redirects/index pages have been
> updated.  My guess is that the time of this crontab is related to
> that crontab.

Interestingly, it isn't really; the first rehup takes place before the
monthly-ml-tasks script is run:

  #### Re-hup the daemon each month so that the new ml-redirects
  #### can be loaded (cf infra/monthly-ml-tasks/update-http-redirects.sh)
  ####
  #### This should run shortly after listarch's monthly list duty
  #### script runs.
  # Those scripts can take oddly long amounts of time to finish, so two
  # extra rehups are here to ensure it gets done.

  45 5,8,12 1 * * /sbin/service httpd reload>/dev/null

I have now moved the monthyl-ml-tasks script from 6:05 to 3:05, to reduce
the windows of "outdated-ness" that Matthias complained about...

> I'd recommend leaving some time between the two processes -- an hour
> say -- so that any mail archiving that is in the middle of happening
> has a chance to clear out.  But that's just MHO.  I purposefully wrote
> in the 6 hour delay originally out of laziness - I didn't want to think
> through the consequences of timing it closely and didn't think it really
> mattered if there was a gap of a few hours.

...so given what you wrote above, the root crontab now should be fine,
without changes?

Gerald