[Mimedefang] New to Mimedefang

[Jeff Rife]

On 4 Nov 2004 at 13:08, David F. Skoll wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Jeff Rife wrote:
> 
> > If you put the /var/spool/MIMEDefang directory on a ramdisk (using
> > either an actual ramdisk or tempfs) this not only speeds up the
> > scanning but solves this problem in the long run, since every reboot
> > gets rid of these randomly saved directories.
> 
> Well, yeah, except I don't like to reboot too often! :-)

True, but for a while, I was doing a lot of reboots for new kernels.

>                                                           And you
> really don't want a ramdisk to fill up.

Unless MD craps out or you stop/start it a lot, you shouldn't get any 
of these.  

>                                          So if you're paranoid, run
> this nightly from cron: 
> 
> find /var/spool/MIMEDefang -name 'mdefang-*' -type d -mtime +1 -exec rm -r {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> That deletes any /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-* directories older than a day.

This also works:

/bin/touch /var/spool/MIMEDefang/*.pid
/bin/touch /var/spool/MIMEDefang/*.sock
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 24 /var/spool/MIMEDefang

This makes sure that the important files are "fresh", and then anything 
older than 24 hours gets deleted.  

It's easy to add this to the /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch file on a RedHat-
based OS.


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