On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Roland Illig wrote:
> Up to now, I have only received comments for the bad choice of the FTP host 
> name. What I find much more interesting is the variable names and their 
> meanings.
>
> - Do they make sense?

+REPORTS_DIR="/home/ftp/pub/NetBSD/pkgstat"
+REPORTS_URL="ftp://localhost/pub/NetBSD/pkgstat"
+REPORT_BASEDIR=`date +%Y%m%d.%H%M`

In the given case, a "base" directory would probably include 
/pub/NetBSD/pkgstat, i.e. the common part of both network and filesystem 
based access. As the two need to be the same in both places, adding them 
in the right place also removes a possible source of errors besides the 
redundancy.

I still think that
 	REPORT_DIR_BASE="/home/ftp"
 	REPORT_URL_BASE=""ftp://localhost"
 	REPORT_DIR="/pub/NetBSD/pkgstat`date +%Y%m%d.%H%M`"

Would make most sence (as said before), as you're dealing with *two 
differend* base specifiers there.


  - Hubert