Lots of empty files in Spamassassin-Temp

Michael Brown michael at netdirect.ca
Fri Nov 25 15:57:18 GMT 2011


I've just noticed that I have *tons* (44K) of empty files in
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Spamassassin-Temp:

-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 16 21:24 MailScanner.00AvcG
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 16 23:35 MailScanner.00f27Y
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 16 13:38 MailScanner.00GI_W
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 16 17:16 MailScanner.00Jocy
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 17 05:47 MailScanner.015y2t
<…>
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 16 19:48 tmp.zZxmXS6icA
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 17 03:36 tmp.zzYqh6JZgv
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 16 20:55 tmp.zZzDzv9mYt
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 24 13:46 tnef0Pj8IZ
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 24 14:11 tnef2nFqQ2
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 24 13:59 tnef3S7jFM
<…>

Any idea why they're there? Should I be running tmpwatch over this
directory on a regular basis to keep it clean? Or is this a symptom of
another problem?

I'm running mailscanner-4.84.3-1 on RHEL 6.1 against postfix.

M.


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