Subj : incoming mail
To   : Rick Smith
From : Stephen Walsh
Date : Tue Aug 09 2022 10:44 am

Hello Rick!

08 Aug 22 05:01, you wrote to me:

 SW>> Even though I'm running linux this is what my exec line looks
 SW>> like, and it get's executed every time:

 RS> Yeah my linux setups are just fine been doing those for years, Os2 is
 RS> a little finicky with things.

I haven't used OS/2 in so long, the cheese has whole's in it. #;)


 SW>> The hpt-copy.sh makes a backup of the mail, in year/month/day
 SW>> directories, and then runs the hpt process's to do the mail.

 RS> Thats really cool...

someone posted it to either here or another network.

I have hpt creating the lockfile in it's config.

---cut me here---
#!/bin/bash

if [ -f /husky/semafore/hpt ]
then exit
fi

echo "copying packets"
SECURE=/husky/inbound.sec
BACKUPDIR=/husky/mail-backup

pushd $BACKUPDIR

if [ ! -d "`date +%Y`" ]; then
        mkdir `date +%Y`
fi

cd `date +%Y`

if [ ! -d "`date +%m`" ]; then
        mkdir `date +%m`
fi

cd `date +%m`

if [ ! -d "`date +%d`" ]; then
        mkdir `date +%d`
fi

cd `date +%d`

find $SECURE -iname "*.pkt" -exec cp -p \{\} ./ \;
find $SECURE -iname "*.PKT" -exec cp -p \{\} ./ \;

for f in mo tu we th fr sa su; do
    find $SECURE -iname "*.${f}?" -exec cp -p \{\} ./ \;
done
/husky/bin/hpt toss
sleep 2
/husky/bin/hpt afix
/husky/bin/htick scan
sleep 2
/husky/bin/hpt pack
rm /husky/semafore/hpt
---cut me here---





Stephen


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