inodes problem

[Sarah Trayser]

> > question to this list as we do not know what the answer is. Temporary
> > empty directories seem to be building up in the directory
> > /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/. They are not quarantine files. He's
> > using exim as the MTA. Shouldn't these directories be getting deleted
> > automatically on a regular basis?
> >
> Ah. That explains that. Perhaps you should look at incorporating the
> MS version somewhere visible too:-).

Good point. :-)

> On to the error... Yes, these should be cleared out.
> The <PID> directories go when the processes (children) are cleaned up
> and restarted, the individual directories for each message of a batch
> should be cleaned when the batch is ended. The Postfix bug I mentioned
> was in the latter case.
> Is the directories (/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/<PID>) empty?

They are empty except when the MailScanner process of that PID is
actually scanning mail. All the old ones are empty. We're seeing this
on our own cPanel/exim servers as well, there are empty directories
going back to December on one of them.

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Regards,
Sarah Trayser

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