On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> $ ls -l /var/spool/exim/msglog
> total 3
> -r-------- 1 exim mail 32 Feb 6 19:48 109DhV-0009l6-00-37641-0
> -rw------- 1 exim mail 182 Feb 11 13:03 10AtBC-000Akf-00
> -rw------- 1 exim mail 172 Feb 11 13:03 10AtIu-000Akw-00
>
> Shouldn't that first file have been deleted when message
> 109DhV-0009l6-00 was finished with? (fwiw, the file contains some output
> from a pipe command.) If this is an Exim problem, I imagine these
> leftover files could accumulate quite a bit on a busy system.
Yes, it should have been deleted. I've never seen one of these left
lying around before. Was there any special incident on your machine at
19:48 on Feb 6? A system crash could of course leave such files lying
around.
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