Loads of stale zero byte tmp files?

Vincent Verhagen vincent at zijnemail.nl
Mon May 21 13:10:30 IST 2012


Hm,
seeing the same here, running CentOS 6.1, MS 4.84.3, ClamAV 0.97.4.
For now deleting them hourly from cron, but a fix would be nice :)

On 21-5-2012 13:33, Richard Mealing wrote:
> I would check in your mailq.in folder also as you might find tnef files there too.
>
> I raised this a couple of weeks ago, but no-one got back to me, so I rolled all my machines back to 4.83.5.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Remco Barendse
> Sent: 21 May 2012 06:23
> To: MailScanner mailing list
> Subject: Loads of stale zero byte tmp files?
>
> Hi list
>
> I have an issue with MailScanner-4.84.5-2 / SpamAss on CentOS 6.2. The setup seems to be working ok but i have an issue on 2 boxes that temp files do not get deleted.  In /tmp stuff like this is piling up quickly:
> -rw-------. 1 root    root         94 May 20 22:55 K2M0qbNwv6
> -rw-------. 1 root    root          0 May 21 05:08 tmp.1t3DQ6ZFaU
> -rw-------. 1 root    root          0 May 21 06:14 tmp.9ZRV7VB41Y
> -rw-------. 1 root    root          0 May 21 04:17 tmp.DmqX7lvDJS
> -rw-------. 1 root    root          0 May 21 04:17 tmp.HwtJIyJImI
> -rw-------. 1 root    root          0 May 21 06:14 tmp.MdrrIsMqGa
> -rw-------. 1 root    root          0 May 21 05:08 tmp.ToMnIIFMf1
>
> and in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp :
> -rw-------. 1 root root 0 May 21 06:31 MailScanner.UfuR0E -rw-------. 1 root root 0 May 21 05:58 MailScanner.vpJ3tf -rw-------. 1 root root 0 May 21 03:34 MailScanner.zmZPln -rw-------. 1 root root 0 May 21 03:34 MailScanner.zTSxkI -rw-------. 1 root root 0 May 21 05:42 tmp.1t1IUXAFLV -rw-------. 1 root root 0 May 21 05:42 tmp.296NAlpKdS -rw-------. 1 root root 0 May 21 03:35 tmp.3cDHk7cwub -rw-------. 1 root root 0 May 21 03:20 tmp.3eimiawowx
>
>
> Any clues why the temp files are not getting deleted?
>
> Thx!
>
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