NAME

       gspl-setspdir - tidy up or redistribute GNUspool jobs into subdirectories

SYNOPSIS

       gspl-setspdir [ -s n ] [ -r ] [ -d ] [ -f form ] [ -y ]

DESCRIPTION

       gspl-setspdir tidies up the GNUspool spool directory, removing old spool files, or
       alternatively re-queuing them with a given default form type, and eliminating jobs where
       the spool file is missing.

       Optionally, it may be used to split the main spool directory into a series of
       subdirectories 000, 001 etc, reducing the size of the main spool directory to manageable
       proportions and also speeding up file searches. Alternatively, the subdirectories may be
       linked to different file systems by the user.

       For reasonably obvious reasons, gspl-setspdir should be run with the spooler shut down.

OPTIONS

       -d  Clear (delete) any orphaned job files found in the directory or directories.

       -f form
           Requeue any orphaned job files with the form type form rather than deleting them.

       -r  Instead of moving jobs between subdirectories, renumber the jobs instead. This should
           only apply when there were existing subdirectories, and the number is being increased.

       -s n
           Split the spool directory into n subdirectories, or change the number of
           subdirectories to n, where n may be 0 (to convert back to a single spool directory),
           or a number up to 999.

           We recommend that n be a prime number, as this minimises the chance of a cycle of
           operations which is a factor of the number of subdirectories causing just a small
           number of subdirectories to be filled more or less exclusively. Confirmation will be
           requested if n is not prime.

           The subdirectories are given the names 000 to 999, and each job will be moved to a
           subdirectory given by the remainder when its job number (the number after the "SP") is
           divided by the number of subdirectories.

       -y  Answer "yes" to any questions which gspl-setspdir asks.

ENVIRONMENT

       gspl-setspdir creates or updates the environment variable "SPOOLSUBDS" in gnuspool.conf.

       SPOOLDIR
               location of spool directory

       SPOOLSUBDS
               number of subdirectories

SEE ALSO

       gspl-cjlist(8), gspl-cplist(8), gspl-spuconv(8), gnuspool.conf(5).

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  This is free software. You may
       redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
       law.

AUTHOR

       John M Collins, Xi Software Ltd.