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[Scott Silva]

Denis Beauchemin spake the following on 10/18/2006 10:40 AM:
> Scott Silva a écrit :
>> Denis Beauchemin spake the following on 10/18/2006 7:46 AM:
>>  
>>> Mevershosting.nl a écrit :
>>>    
>>>> Mike, list,
>>>>
>>>> This is the script i use, i doesnt delete files but renames them. You
>>>> could stop mailscanner first in the script before running this, but i
>>>> found it doesnt really make a differance.
>>>>
>>>> snip
>>>>       
>>> I use the following one-liner in root's crontab to remove files that
>>> don't have today's date (uses bash syntax on a RHEL 4 system):
>>> 19 9 * * * cd /var/spool/mqueue.in/ && /bin/rm -f $(/bin/ls -l
>>> /var/spool/mqueue.in/[dqt]* 2>/dev/null | /bin/grep -v "$(/bin/date
>>> '+\%b \%e')"|/bin/awk '{print $NF}') 2>/dev/null
>>>
>>> Denis
>>>
>>>     
>> It would be better to use something that goes back at least the number
>> of days
>> your system will retry for, something like;
>>
>> ...
> Scott,
> 
> Not really since emails never stay that long in the mqueue.in
> directory.  I have been careful enough to program it late in the morning
> (9:19).  The only files that are still in mqueue.in at 9:19 are the
> leftovers with only one q/d file.
> 
> Denis
> 
Sorry, I posted without seeing that you were cleaning the in queue.
I/O error on my part. Or more of an ID10T error. I have to read slower in the
morning!


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