[Mimedefang] New to Mimedefang
Jeff Rife
mimedefang at nabs.net
Thu Nov 4 17:18:14 EST 2004
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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