Old messages no being processed

[Denis Beauchemin]

    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

Terran Wright wrote:

>Hey Guys,
>
>Running CentOS4 Postfix, MailScanner 4.41.3, SA ClamAV & Bitdefender.
>
>Had a problem with disk space a couple days ago where the /var/dcc/log
>directory grew so large (about 8 Gigs) the disk became full. I deleted all
>the files in that directory and restarted mailScanner and thins were fine
>except for the thousands of mails backed up.
>
>...
>
>2 Questions:
>1. What's the purpose of the files in the log directory and should I delete
>them regularly?
>  
>
I don't know exactly why they are there but you can manage them this way:

   1. modify /var/dcc/dcc_conf : DBCLEAN_LOGDAYS=14 to a much smaller
      value (I use 5)
   2. copy misc/cron-dccd from your install dir to /etc/cron.daily

That way it shouldn't fill up your disk.

Denis

-- 
   _
  °v°   Denis Beauchemin, analyste
 /(_)\  Université de Sherbrooke, S.T.I.
  ^ ^   T: 819.821.8000x2252 F: 819.821.8045

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!