Re: [exim] Large hints database

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Autor: Peter Bowyer
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A: Exim, Users
Assumpte: Re: [exim] Large hints database
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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