inodes problem

[Glenn Steen]

On 31/05/07, Sarah Trayser <waytotheweb at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
>
Hm. So for some reason MailScanner isn't cleaning up at restart, or
(as Phil rightly points out) is exiting abnormally. You see nothing
indicative in your logs? Or if you run it in debug (MailScanner
--debug)?

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