On 8/11/2010 7:15 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> In case anyone else is following this... >> >> The sa-update process made things a bit more complex than simply >> renaming the file after updates. If that's all you do, then >> sa-update loses track of the file and will download a new copy on >> every run. What I had to do is this: >> >> 1) Rename the .cf file back to the original name so sa-update can >> find it >> 2) Run sa-update >> 3) Rename the .cf file to z_sought_rules_yerp_org.cf > > How about symlinking z_sought_rules_yerp_org.cf to > sought_rules_yerp_org.cf? That might spare you performing the filename > shuffle every time you want to update...
I thought about that, but didn't like the side-effect of loading the whole rule set a third time. The "filename shuffle" is in my update script now, so it just happens. I don't see a couple of mv operations causing a problem in this instance. -- Bowie
