[Bro-Dev] broctl archive copy vs move

Robin Sommer robin at icir.org
Wed Dec 14 07:31:38 PST 2016




On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 20:22 +0000, you wrote:

> The way it was originally written must have assumed the logs were
> going to be archived to a different filesystem.

Yes, indeed, pretty sure that was the reason. If we just replaced "cp"
with "mv" that would still be an issue, right? We'd need something a
bit more smart that does the right thing in either case, like Python's
shutil.move does,
https://docs.python.org/2/library/shutil.html#shutil.move

Robin

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