** On May 12, Craig Sanders scribbled: > On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 09:46:27AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > when a directory tree changes often and unpredictably, you're better > > off either not generating the ls-lR at all or making a decision that > > it's OK for the ls-lR file to be 5 or 30 or 60 or whatever minutes out > > of date. > > not that it matters much for Incoming - there's really only one > directory (the top level) which needs to be mirrored. REJECT/ and the > other subdirectories can be excluded. If it's just one directory, then the generation time will be short, but even so - on a busy system where many uploads happen, where the admin or some automate moves files around behind the back of the ftpd the ls-LR file will mostly be outdated, won't it? marek
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