Help! ....We are taking 120k msgs per day and climbing

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jun 16 22:30:49 IST 2004


At 19:14 16/06/2004, you wrote:
>Julian,
>
> >          export TMPDIR=/var/spool/MailScanner/SpamAssassin
> > just before the line that runs check_mailscanner and mounting that
> > directory with tmpfs. Or else you can just move /tmp onto tmpfs which is
> > what things like Solaris do anyway.
>
>Would it be an idea to add this to the config, will be usefull for a lot
>of people. I added it to my initscripts now, works just fine.

Agreed.
Can someone test what happens if I specify
export TMPDIR=/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin
in the init.d script. What does the clear-up code do with this.

The actual code I add will be that split over 2 lines as only bash can set
and export in the same line.
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