[Mimedefang] 12,000 /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang- directories in 7 days

james.madill at duke.edu james.madill at duke.edu
Tue Feb 10 17:43:44 EST 2004


> AI indeed had added the debug option when I first ran MIMEDefang to squash 
> some bugs (file/directory permissions), but am not running in debug mode 
> now.  Too bad, when I read your response, my hopes went up until I checked.
> 
> 
> Have you restarted MD after removing -d flag?
> 
> >I guess I will have to settle for having about 5000 leftover directories 
> >per gateway after the daily purge.

Yes, a number of times (to up the maximum number of concurrent processes).  Also, I was only running in debugging mode on one server, the first one brought up.  If in debug mode, directories are not deleted, I would have literally millions of directories on each server, so it is something else.

-- James

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