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

[james.madill at duke.edu]

> >When I took a look in the /var/spool/MIMEDefang directory, I was quite 
> >surprised to see over 12,000 directories with timestamps spanning the 
> >previous 7 days.
> >
> >It would appear that they weren't deleted because the directory (still) 
> >contained contents.
> 
> This happened to me when we first implemented MD.  I was running with -d 
> flag, enable debugging.
> 
> Xiaoyan 

I 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.

I guess I will have to settle for having about 5000 leftover directories per gateway after the daily purge.

-- James


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