inodes problem

[Glenn Steen]

On 31/05/07, Mark Alberts <mark at mcselec.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the mailscanner as an end user without much knowledge since
> it was installed for me.
> I have a VPS and i saw inodes getting to 100%.
> I searched this list and found an old issue from 2002, but that was
> fixed long time ago.
>  var/ spool/ MailScanner/ incoming/  get full of directories and they
> are not cleaned/removed. And i do suppose that these are all temp
> files.
> So the Q, is this a bug, or a configuration, or better does somebody
> know a fix?
> I am running 2.53  of Mailscanner.
>
> best regards
> Mark Alberts
>
What MTA do you use? There used to be a bug that cased Postfix-using
systems to gradually fill up incoming that way (but then the "Restart
Every..." option took care of things every X:th hour, IIRC).
With an install as old as you say, you might very well be afflicted by
that... Or any number of other bugs. If you do
MailScanner -V
does that show the version, or does it carp about "-V" not being a
correct option?
If this really is 2.53, contract someone (if you don't feel up to
it:-) to do an upgrade as soon as humanely possible.

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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