mqueue and mqueue.in have more files than necessary ... should I worry?

[Greg Matthews]

I often get "orphaned" data files lying around. ie those df files
without a corresponding qf envelope file. I use the following script to
clean them up:

#!/bin/bash
# clean up orphaned df* files in mqueue.in
# no known cause for these files yet.

/etc/init.d/MailScanner stop

sleep 2
dir="/var/spool/mqueue.in"

file=`find $dir -mtime +1`
for i in ${file}
    do m=`basename ${i}`
    j=${m:2}
    if [ ! -e "${dir}/qf${j}" ]; then
        mv ${i} /var/tmp/
        fi
    done
echo
df -hl

/etc/init.d/MailScanner start

exit 0

-- 
Greg Matthews           01491 692445
Head of UNIX/Linux, iTSS Wallingford


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