SvenM

We have created 3 Dircat program documents on two of our servers. One server is 8.0.1 and the other one is 6.5.1. Both servers run on linux.

The problem with these documents is that they don’t run… Well actually they do but for some reason we get an error indicating that the dircat process is already running. We’ve modified the command line on our first program document several times using -quit, -q, just q, … but it just won’t quit!

So what I’ve done is I’ve created 3 different scheduled agents in a notes database.

The first agent is called 1. Stop Dircat. It runs every day at 3:55 and all it does is the following:

Dim s As New notessession
Dim nnServer As New NotesName(s.CurrentDatabase.Server)
Dim consoleReturn$

‘Send the console command
consoleReturn$ = s.SendConsoleCommand( nnServer.Common, “tell dircat quit” )

The second agent is called 2. Rebuild Dircat. It runs every day at 4:05 and all it does is the following:

Dim s As New notessession
Dim nnServer As New NotesName(s.CurrentDatabase.Server)
Dim consoleReturn$

‘Send the console command
consoleReturn$ = s.SendConsoleCommand( s.common, “load dircat names.nsf -r” )

The second agent is called 3. Load Dircat. It runs every day at 4:15 and all it does is the following:

Dim s As New notessession
Dim nnServer As New NotesName(s.CurrentDatabase.Server)
Dim consoleReturn$

‘Send the console command
consoleReturn$ = s.SendConsoleCommand( nnServer.Common, “load dircat” )

I’ve also set my agent security to 2. Allow Restricted operations.

This seems to do the trick. Before I created these agents I wasn’t aware of the SendConsoleCommand. I can already see a lot of other situations where I can use this function!

Update: here is a print-screen of the server document. This doesn’t seem to do the trick. The catalog is not updated as it should be: