Two bogoutil suggestions

[Matthias Andree]

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004, David Relson wrote:

> At present, some bogoutil options require a directory and others require
> a filename.  This is due to legacy code to support separate wordlists,
> where the directory name is enough to determine the database name. 
> Since 0.17.0 will no longer support separate wordlists, my plan had been
> to allow either directory or filename for these options.
> 
> Bogoutil _could_ search out the wordlist directory (using bogofilter's
> code).  I'm concerned that this would make it too easy to misuse
> bogoutil and muck up the database.   Requiring the argument provides
> _some_ time to get the command right and not hurt yourself.
> 
> What do people think of this idea?

I don't care. Really. I have never used bogoutil for maintenance - I've
always killed my data base and started over.

> > 2) Change the logic for the maintenance operations from OR to AND. At
> >    present you cannot do "expire all singletons that are older than
> >    one week" because with "-c 1 -a 8" you get "expire all singletons
> >    and all tokens older than one week". I don't think this is what
> >    you'd expect. And still, of you want the OR logic, you can get this
> >    by two runs of bogoutil.
> > 
> > Any comments?
> 
> Could be done.  As you point out, ORs could still be done -- which is
> very good.
> 
> Are y'all using the maintenance operations?  What do y'all think is
> best?

Go for "AND".

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Matthias Andree

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