Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 16:13:27 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010:
 > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 06:41:22PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > > Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:24:30 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 
 > > 2010:
 > >  > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:05:01AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > >  > > Anyway here is the diff. I have not had time to check it much
 > >  > > beyond verifying that it seems to run -- SO I WOULD TRULY
 > >  > > APPRECIATE IT IF YOU CONTINUE TO TEST IT AND GIVE ME FEEDBACK.
 > >  > > Also, it would be great if you would let me know approximately
 > >  > > what speedup you achieved with this code vs. your original.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Yeah, I can do that.  You mind sending me a completely updated
 > >  > version privately?  i.e. what you'd post to the wiki once it was
 > >  > tested?
 > >  > 
 > > Sure...
 > 
 > Well, initially:
 > 
 > 
 > ut00-s00008 pc # sudo -u backuppc /var/tmp/BackupPC_fixLinks
 > Subroutine jlink redefined at /var/tmp/BackupPC_fixLinks line 597.
 > Subroutine junlink redefined at /var/tmp/BackupPC_fixLinks line 603.
 > Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /var/tmp/BackupPC_fixLinks 
 > line 99.
 > 
 > 
 > The first two seem deliberate, but are surprising.

Ohh... they are inconsequential and only now popped up because I
uncommented "use warnings" for testing purposes.
That being said, I corrected the code sloppiness they uncovered.
You need to update jlib.pm too since I moved one routine there for
consistency.

Here is the code:

BackupPC_fixLinks.pl
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jLib.pm
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 > 
 > Oh, hey, a request: can you add $|=1; to your scripts?  I end up
 > adding it regularily because I want to save the output but I also
 > want to see that it's doing something, so I do things like:
 > 
 >   $ sudo -u backuppc /var/tmp/BackupPC_fixLinks | tee >/tmp/fix.out
 > 
 > which appears to do nothing for ages due to buffering.

Hmm... let me think about it... I did use some $| as part of the
warning outputs...

 > 
 > I have a super-giant run going now; I'll let you know how it goes.
 > It will likely take many days.

Good luck!

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