On 09/11/2007 03:53 AM, Michelangelo Rezzonico wrote:

> I have the following situation:
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> A user delete a file from the file-system: example “/tmp/file.doc”
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> After 5 mins, a cron-job starts the following command:
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> /usr/local/bin/swish-e –r –i “/tmp/file.doc”
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> The file is not removed from the index because it doesn’t exists (on the
> file-system).
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> How can I solve this problem ?
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> Note: the option to delete the file in the cron-job is not applicable in
> my situation.
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the problem is that swish-e tries to stat() the file -- you get a catch-22
situation.

Maybe try the -S prog method with something like this (UNTESTED):

 % echo "Path-Name: /tmp/file.doc\nContent-Length: 0\nUpdate-Mode: Remove\n\n"\
   | swish-e -S prog -i stdin



-- 
Peter Karman  .  peter(at)not-real.peknet.com  .  http://peknet.com/

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