Subj : New Perl Utilities
To   : Angel Ripoll
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Sat Dec 05 2020 11:36:06

Hello Angel,

Saturday November 28 2020, Angel Ripoll wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 AR> I have used fixOutbound.pl and I think it does not do what is
 AR> expected.


 AR> *********************************************************
 AR> root@bbs:~# fixOutbound.pl --dry-run
 AR> ### It is a dry-run, no actual changes will be made ###
 AR> Deleting orphan files from outbound
 AR> /srv/fido/var/spool/outbound/44e18401.tu0 deleted
 AR> [...]

 AR> *********************************************************

 AR> If I look at the file 015500ca.clo:

 AR> *********************************************************
 AR> root@bbs:/var/spool/ftn/outbound# cat 015500ca.clo
 AR> ^/var/spool/ftn/outbound/44e18401.tu0
 AR> [...]
 AR> *********************************************************

 AR> As you can see, the files are in a flow file.

I've received the config you sent me, thank you. There is no such a directory as /srv/fido/var/spool/outbound in your config. The config states that the outbound is in /var/spool/ftn/outbound. It is very strange to place a symlink in your config but it is up to you.

Apart of this I see that fixOutbound.pl worked as expected. You used the --dry-run option. The documentation which you can view by running `perldoc fixOutbound.pl` says:
    --dry-run
    --nodry-run
        If "--dry-run" is used, perform a trial run with no changes made.
        Nothing is deleted, but the same output is produced as in a real run
        except the error messages that may appear during the actual run.

So nothing was deleted as you asked.

Michael

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