argusarchive script

[Peter Van Epp]

	Now I've started converting to 2.x (you don't want to rush these things
after all :-)), I've hit my first rub. The argusarchive script file naming
scheme has a short coming (at least as far as I'm concerned) in that the 
first and last files of the day are in the wrong place (i.e in "yesterday" or
"tomorrow". At present the file argus.2002.04.29.00.00.00.gz (for instance)
really belongs in archive/2002/04/28/argus.2002.04.28.23.00.00.gz not 
archive/2002/04/29/argus.2002.04.29.00.00.00.gz (where it is) since the data 
in it starts at 04/28 23:00 to 04/28 23:59. While this could be compensated for 
in the extraction perl script, I think the right answer is probably to change 
the archive script to "do the right thing". The question is how best to do 
that. The first thing that occurs to me is generate the file name when the 
switch happens (as now) but save it in a file in the file system for the next 
switch and use the file name saved at the last switch (or startup which is a 
wrinkle that needs thinking about) as the archive file name. Essentially I 
want the file name to be the date at the start of the capture period not the 
end (because then data for a day is in a single directory as it should be).
	Anyone have any clever suggestions about how to easily achieve this 
without storing file names (with the attendent messyness of needing to consider
setting an appropriate filename on startup) or should we just store the 
filename and be done with it?

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada