bogoutil question

R Kimber rkimber at ntlworld.com
Tue Jan 30 22:46:57 CET 2007


On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:05:50 +0100
Matthias Andree wrote:

> R. Kimber wrote:
> 
> > I see that, but why would I get different results with the two
> > commands on a db that is not being used by bogoflter at all. I.e on
> > an archive copy elsewhere on the system that cannot be accessed by
> > bogofilter?
> > 
> > Thanks for being patient :)
> 
> In cases where you can guarantee a database is not in use, *and* if
> the database has been archived in a moment when it was not in use
> (bf_copy does not lock the database for exclusive access), then there
> should be no difference.

OK, I can guarantee the former, though *maybe* not the latter.

So when a bf_copy is used on a db in use, then bogoutil --db-verify
will report that the resulting copy is OK?

- Richard.
-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/



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