[Orca-users] recommended way to remove old clients

[Sean O'Neill]

At 10:10 AM 2/4/2003 -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
>Sean O'Neill wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >I wouldn't bother deleting this file, it'll take a while for Orca
> > >to regenerate the data in there.  You could remove the lines that
> > >deal with the old hostname however.  But due to the way the file
> > >is structured, this may break something, since the information for
> > >one input data file may be a pointer to another data file, and if
> > >the data file being pointed to is deleted, then things may break
> > >in unexpected ways.  The code in lib/Orca/OldState.pm isn't smart
> > >enough to handle this case.
> >
> > This would be a good FAQ entry including your comments about the orca_state
> > file.
>
>Are you saying there should there be a question in the FAQ regarding
>the renaming and Orca groups (hostnames in this case) and this will be
>part of it, or a question that contains this information?

This would be a good "How do I change a machine's hostname and still retain 
the machine's collected Orca data?" question.

As to exactly what format this question should be represented in the FAQ 
... I'll leave that to you.  You might even have both questions you refer 
to above but simply have one say "See FAQ #.# for further information".


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Sean O'Neill