news.daily and dropped innfeed files

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Russ,

>>> I wonder if it would be useful to have news.daily process dropped
>>> innfeed files automatically via procbatch.
>>
>> That would be lovely.
>
> The only tricky part, which is what always stopped me from automating
> something, was that you have to be sure the old innfeed is dead before
> you can process the *.dropped file.

I think something like that should work in news.daily:

# Try to find the path to innfeed's spool.  The default is
# ${PATHSPOOL}/innfeed if not found.
INNFEEDSPOOL=`${AWK} '{gsub(/:|#/, " & ")} {if ($1 == "backlog-directory" && $2 == ":") print $3}' ${PATHETC}/innfeed.conf`
test -z "${INNFEEDSPOOL}" && test -f "${PATHSPOOL}/innfeed" && INNFEEDSPOOL="innfeed"

if [ -d "${PATHSPOOL}/${INNFEEDSPOOL}" ]
then
  cd "${PATHSPOOL}/${INNFEEDSPOOL}"

  # Find the PIDs of innfeed.
  LOCKS=`cat *.lock | ${SORT} -u`

  # Process files like "innfeed-dropped.A001703" where
  # 1703 is not in $LOCKS.
  for file in $(find -name "innfeed-dropped*")
  do
    PID=`echo "$file" | ${SED} 's/^.*[A-Z]0*//'`
    FOUND=false
    for LOCK in $LOCKS
    do
      if [ "$PID" = "$LOCK" ]
      then
        FOUND=true
      fi
    done
    if [ $FOUND = false ]
    then
      ${PATHBIN}/procbatch -qmu $file
    fi
  done
fi



$LOCKS contains "1703 392" for instance.
$file is "innfeed-dropped.A001703".
$PID is 1703 and then this file is not processed.

I hope it is portable.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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