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Several people have asked about automating their mapfiles/pathalias
stuff.  I finally got around to commenting my script for uploading.

I run it with a cron entry of:

30 2 * * * /bin/su root -c "/u/bin/demap.sh | mail erict"

It has a whole *TWO* debugging status statements.  The first states
that the script has run (and gives the date/time), the second
only gets sent if the pathalias database was updated.  I just
mail 'em to myself for fun and profit. :-)

Here it is:
(Shar?  Who needs a shar?)


# History:
# demap.sh 7Jun88 JET -- wrote initial script
# 20Jun88 JET -- fixed the stupid find statement for pathalias database.
# 25Jun88 JET -- commented the script so others would be able to follow.

# erict@flatline.UUCP
# A really kludgey version that probably takes forever to run...
# but it was quick n dirty to write... 

echo "demap.sh run at" `date`
cd /usr/lib/mail/maps

# This pulls the maps from their spool/news directory, cleans them
# up, and puts them into the map directory...
# LastCheck is an empty file that I use as a date-keeper for the
# last time the spool directory was checked for new maps.

for i in `find /usr/spool/news/comp/mail/maps -type f \
 -newer /usr/lib/mail/maps/LastCheck -print`
do
sed -e "/^From: /D" -e "/^Path: /D" -e "/^Newsgroups: /D" -e "/^From /D" -e "/^Subject: /D" -e "/^Message-ID: /D" -e "/^Date: /D" -e "/^Expires: /D" -e "/^Sender: /D" -e "/^Lines: /D" -e "/^Approved: /D" -e "/^Supersedes: /D" $i \
| sh
done

touch /usr/lib/mail/maps/LastCheck


# do pathalias stuff
# thanks to apt@uhnix2.uh.edu (Alan Pfeiffer-Traum) for the find trick.
# this will rebuild the pathalias/smail database *if*, and only *if*
# new map files were processed.

latest_files=`find /usr/lib/mail/maps/[d,u]* -newer /usr/lib/mail/paths -print`

if [ -n "$latest_files" ]
then 
echo "Updating pathalias database."
cd /usr/lib/mail/maps
cat dir.form d.* u.* | pathalias -l flatline > /tmp/pathalias
cd /usr/lib/mail
mv paths paths.old
sort /tmp/pathalias > paths
chmod a+r paths
rm /tmp/pathalias
fi



Anyone who thinks they can do this better, please post your script.

Again, this is most definately a mondo-jock kludge.  But, it works. :-)
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