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[Glenn Steen]

On 19/10/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> Glenn Steen spake the following on 10/19/2006 12:20 AM:
> > On 18/10/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> >> 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!
> >
> > This is where you need switch beverage from L1QU0R to JAVA.... Sigh, I
> > tire even myself with my lame sense of humour:-).
> >
> > Only thing to be careful with, regarding your cron-scriptlet Denis,
> > would be if (for some unkowable reason) MailScanner wasn't moving
> > things out of the in queue... Like an "extended error" on the weekend
> > or somesuch (you do go on vacation from time tyo time?:-)... Other
> > than that, the logic of it is flawless. Unfortunately (or because I'm
> > just into my first cup of coffee:-) I don't really see a good way to
> > determine that MS is moving things along.... The simple tests (that
> > there are MS children about) would probably be enough, if one would
> > want to implement something like that:-).
> >
> I have seen a script or two on the list that will only delete if there is not
> a matching pair of qf/df. That should take into account the orphans, but not
> mess with active mail. Since mailscanner moves the queue files by hard link in
> new directory/ unlink in old, there should be no danger of hurting files in
> progress.
Yes of course, no argument there.

> As for the beverage switch, I would rather go the other direction!  ;-)
Ah yes... Although I've been told that if one does that too frequently
during the week, one might get branded as an "alcoholic":-)...
Unfortunately for me I'll be stone sober this whole weekend... I
suppose the users/PHB will appreciate this, since that'll make it less
likely that I will have done something silly with the new network
gear;-).

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