A better way to clean up after the archiving, no need to wait for it.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/apt-panopticon.lua b/apt-panopticon.lua
index 72627a0..e54e553 100755
--- a/apt-panopticon.lua
+++ b/apt-panopticon.lua
@@ -1064,7 +1064,10 @@ else
     local fadt = io.popen("ls -dl results_old 2>/dev/null | cut -d '>' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 2")
     local adt = fadt:read('*l')
     fadt:close()
-    if (nil ~= adt) and APT.checkFile(adt) then os.execute('mkdir -p ' .. adt:sub(1, 18) .. '; ionice -c3 nice -n 19 tar -c --xz ' .. adt .. ' -f ' .. adt:sub(1, 18) .. '/' .. adt .. '.tar.xz &') end
+    if (nil ~= adt) and APT.checkFile(adt) then
+        os.execute('{ mkdir -p ' .. adt:sub(1, 18) .. ' && ionice -c3 nice -n 19' ..
+                    ' tar -c --xz ' .. adt .. ' -f ' .. adt:sub(1, 18) .. '/' .. adt .. '.tar.xz && rm -fr ' .. adt .. ' 2>/dev/null; } &')
+    end
     local dt = os.date('!%F-%H-%M')
     local fodt = io.popen('TZ="GMT" date -r results/stamp +%F-%H-%M 2>/dev/null', 'r')
     local odt = fodt:read('*l')
@@ -1212,10 +1215,6 @@ os.execute('sleep 1')	-- Wait for things to start up before checking for them.
         end
     end
 
-os.execute('sleep 1')   -- Wait for things to start up before checking for them.
-    while 1 <= APT.checkExes('tar -c --xz ' .. adt .. ' -f ' .. adt .. '.tar.xz') do os.execute("sleep 10") end
-    if nil ~= adt then os.execute('rm -fr ' .. adt .. ' 2>/dev/null') end
-
     I('Total run time was ' .. (os.time() - now) .. ' seconds.')
     APT.logPost()
 end