bayes.lock and bayes_toks.expire files piling up

[Peter Bonivart]

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Mike Kercher wrote:
> I just noticed that I have a TON of the files mentioned above in my
> /root/.spamassassin directory.
>
> Is it safe to delete these after a period of time?  I'm thinking something
> like this in crontab:
>
> 0 2 * * * /usr/bin/find /root/.spamassassin -mtime +7|xargs rm -f >/dev/null
> 2>&1
>
> Yes?  No?  Maybe?

Yes but you have a problem with the expire mechanism of SA. Read here
for more info:

http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/303.html
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/317.html

--
/Peter Bonivart

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