Re: [exim] Exiscan Clam scan directory filling up

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> Unpacked messages - pretty big by the sound of it.
>
> Stop exim for a few minutes (to avoid nuking scans in progress), and
> delete everything under /var/spool/exim/scan and it should all be OK.


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Tom Kistner wrote:

> 3,7 gig in only 85 dirs!? There were some rather big messages being
> scanned when you stopped exim :)
>
> Exiscan needs proper cleanup-on-sigterm. Check the dates on the dirs.
> Are they all from today? Some may be older. In any case, you can safely
> rm -rf all of them, even if one related message would still be on the
> queue. These files are purely temporary, nothing will get lost.

All the messages were from today and big they were. 3.7GB/85 is well,
big... The math doesn't work out properly to what message_size_limit is
set to, but it's still too big for my likings.

Regardless, thank you Nigel and Tom for such fast responses.

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Mark T. Valites
Unix Systems Analyst
Computing & Information Technology
SUNY Geneseo
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