What to do with orphans?

[iwt]

Hello everybody,

i just tried out the ommaint script from the scalix package on my server (10.0.1.24). The weekly report tells me, that orphans were found:

Orphans found ....
Orphan name Orphan type
~/data/0000007/0000c62 Data Item.
~/data/000000h/00018b6 Data Item.
~/data/000000k/00013j1 Data Item.
~/data/000000n/0001921 Data Item.
~/data/000000o/00018i2 Data Item.
~/data/000000p/00011ou Data Item.

Bad extensions ....

Owner Info : Test Tester/ group, afv/CN=Test Tester
Parent Container : ~/data/0000011/0000r0s:1, RecNum : 1
Child Affected : ~/data/000000o/00018k3
Child Subject : Testentry+

Is there something i have to do, e.g. deleting the orphans? And how to do this?

cu
Andre

[Valerion]

omscan is the tool to fix orphans with

[iwt]

OK, i cant find anything in the manuals, how omscan does this. Can you give me a hint?

cu
Andre

[les]

OK, i cant find anything in the manuals, how omscan does this. Can you give me a hint?

cu
Andre

ommaint runs omscan to generate this report for you. These switches willl do it.

omscan -Aafx

the -f say fix data inconsistencies, move orphans etc.
-x says do extended checking also.

Its all in the manpage of omscan.

I normally change ommaint to do the above, but thats my decision. I have a bug report against ommaint to enhance it so that it does more than just reporting. The scalix techs explain why ommaint only reports by default....

http://bugzilla.scalix.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15082

[JasonWarren]

Hi,
What are 'orphans' and how do they get created?
Also if
omscan -Aavfx
is used daily, should you see many orphans listed as omscan runs? are the orphans purged out or not? does any of this make sense )

[les]

Hi,
What are 'orphans' and how do they get created?
Also if
omscan -Aavfx
is used daily, should you see many orphans listed as omscan runs? are the orphans purged out or not? does any of this make sense :o)

The following thread explains orphans.

http://www.scalix.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7373&highlight=orphan

There shouldn't be too many orphans if you run omscan (ommaint) frequently with the options to fix orphans.