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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal> I just finished revising my reindex script for Linux/Unix systems. In addition to using “dxmaint –ra”, as Ken Brody suggested, I put in a test to make sure I only looped through directories and that the script wouldn’t hang if it found a file like ‘nohup.out” in the /u/appl/filepro subdir.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----- ----- -----<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>echo "Started `date`" >/home/mjs/retime<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>cd /u/appl/filepro<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>for file in *<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> do echo $file<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> if [[ -d $file ]]; then<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> echo "Starting Freechain:" $file `date` >>/home/mjs/retime<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> /u/appl/fp/lib/freechain $file<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> echo $file `date` >>/home/mjs/retime<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> /u/appl/fp/dxmaint $file -ra -e<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> fi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>done<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>echo "Ended `date`" >>/home/mjs/retime<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----- ----- -----<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> This script still has one bug: It locked up when it hit the “/u/appl/filepro/stmenu”, which is where the old Softa/Fourgen menus are kept. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> I got around the stmenu issue by defining a filepro file named “stmenu”. That put a map, key and data in the stmenu subdirectory so that dxmaint treats that subdir as a filepro database without any indexes and skips over it. Unfortunately, if anybody creates a subdirectory in /u/appl/filepro for any other purpose, the script will probably fail. Maybe I should test for the presence of a “map” file inside each subdirectory before I launch dxmaint or freechain...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Do any of you see any other pitfalls in this script?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> I need this script to run autonomously as a “cron” job every weekend at some of my customer sites, so I don’t want to leave too many loose ends...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> I suppose I should test for symlinked files, but I don’t expect that there would be any in the filepro subdir and I think this script would reindex symlinked files properly. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mike Schwartz<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>