/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

[Kris Zabriskie]

Julian,
Thanks for your help as always.  We are in the process of blowing away that
directory.  It is going to take awhile.  Is MailScanner supposed to leave
the directory there after it has been used or is there something wrong with
my config?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming


> At 14:39 17/09/2003, you wrote:
> >Today I have noticed a small problem with my installation of MailScanner.
I
> >tailed my mail.log and noticed an interesting message occurring every
once
> >and awhile.
> >
> >Cannot create temporary Work Dir /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/502693.
Are
> >the permissions and ownership of /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming correct?
> >
> >
> >I went over to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming to check the permissions
and
> >they are:
> >drwxrwxrwx65533 root     system   1605632 Sep 13 16:00 incoming
>
> You have world-writable directories on your system! :-(
>
> >I went in the directory to take a look around and there are probably
> >MILLIONS of directories.  So I have a couple of questions here:
> >
> >1) What is the /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming directory used for?
> >2) Can I blow these directories away?
> >3) What might be causing this problem?
> >
> >Any help would greatly be appreciate.  Thanks!
>
> 1) Temporary storage used by MailScanner while working
> 2)
> Stop MailScanner.
> rm -rf /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> mkdir /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> 3) How do you stop MailScanner? You shouldn't kill -9 it or anything nasty
> like that.
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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>