A critical piece for EDI processing and general document processingin fielPro

[Brian K. White]

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From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:21 PM
Subject: A critical piece for EDI processing and general document 
processingin fielPro


> each day and stores them in a dated archive tree. For example, if I get
> an invoice document in today... it would store the incoming document
> *automatically* into:
>
> /tmp/EDI/archive/inv/in/06/06


Be advised that on SCO (OSR5) there is a cron job that deletes all files in 
any subdirectories in /tmp amd /usr/tmp.
It leaves files in the top level /tmp itself, and it leaves empty 
directories and subdirectories, but the files in the subdirectories all go 
bye bye.

It's not a sane or safe place for archives on any other OS either. Some have 
startup/shutdown scripts that delete everything. On some in fact (Unixware 
OSR6), /tmp is only a small ramdisk.

So, when implimenting this for real, pick any other destination besides /tmp 
or /usr/tmp !

Further reading:
   man cleantmp
   crontab -l |pg

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