Subj : Re: File echoes as passthru?
To : All
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sat Dec 21 2024 10:38 am
> Sorry I posted this in the wrong echo the first time.
> With a message echo, you can set those as passthru and the message is not
> stored on your system.
> With a file echo, doesn't the file have to be stored *somewhere* in order
> for the subscribing nodes to pick it up and, once every node that is
> subscribed has picked it up, doesn't it still just sit on your system?
> A network I am in has added a file echo that could contain large files that
> I don't want to keep beyond the point where any downlinks have picked the
> file up, but I am not certain there is a way to automate such a process.
> I know if the files exist in that nodes outbox, they get deleted, but I am
> pretty sure that is not how file echo attaches work (i.e. they are not
> stored in the outboxes of individual nodes).
This actually turned out to be pretty easy.
I did some poking around on the synchro.net wiki page. It had been a while
since I had added a file area so I forgot that you can set retention periods.
So, the solution for passthru file echoes in synchronet is to tell tickit that
I
*do* want to save it to a file area, and then set that file area up with a
retention of a month.
Then just add the delfiles utility to a nightly script.
