On 09/11/06, exim@??? <exim@???> wrote:
> Thanks for making me sensitive to this!
>
> Are you referring to the files in /var/spool/exim/db?
>
> drwxr-x--- 2 nobody nobody 4096 Sep 16 2004 .
> drwxr-xr-x 7 nobody nobody 4096 May 27 18:03 ..
> -rw-r----- 1 nobody nobody 552960 Nov 9 12:01 retry
> -rw-r----- 1 nobody nobody 0 Sep 16 2004 retry.lockfile
> -rw-r----- 1 nobody nobody 45056 Nov 9 11:48 wait-remote_smtp
> -rw-r----- 1 nobody nobody 0 Sep 16 2004 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
>
> If so I will remove them right away!
Why? Are they causing you a problem? Is your disk space so small?
They're doing a job for you and they're tiny.
>
> Would it be worth the while to delete them with a monthly crontab?
How are you measuring 'worth' ? Running exim_tidydb regularly will
expire old information from them.
Peter
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Peter Bowyer
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