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• What is the impact of deleting the ‘.toc’ and ‘.dat’ files from the repeater ‘rpt_dir’? [26/2/03]

What is the impact of deleting the ‘.toc’ and ‘.dat’ files from the repeater ‘rpt_dir’?

What is the impact of deleting the ‘.toc’ and ‘.dat’ files from the repeater ‘rpt_dir’?

The file system was full so I deleted a few of these files - after this "mistake" I had to rebuild the Repeater/Gateway. I understood these files to be a reference to the packages that have been distributed?

Contributed By: Marc Remes
The official ways to remove files from MDIST2 depots are:

‘wdepot delete’ to delete a specific file
‘wdepot purge’ to purge all depot files
or
‘wunldsp’ to unload a Software Package.

Take care: when you use the wdepot command, the ‘SW_LOADED_COMPONENTS’ table is not updated, meaning that software distribution still thinks the SP(B) is still on the depot. When you ‘wldsp’ again, you'll need to force the load with ‘-f’ because the Change Management feature thinks the operation is not needed because of the state in the INV db.

Also you can just remove the ‘rpt_dir’. When you restart the Gateway/Repeater it will build valid (empty) './states' directory. There’s no need to scratch the Repeater entirely.