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PMX: Files in /opt/pmx6/var/qdir/tmp

WolfgangK

Hello fellow spam fighters,

 

I just discovered, that one of our edge servers is having a huge amount (about 0.9 million!) of elements in the path "/opt/pmx6/var/qdir/tmp" (going back to 2013).

Most files are with a size of 0 bytes. Names look like this:  "1555511563-5284:4149988128-5CB7390B_5284_1977_2-16707-smtp1".

 

Is it safe to delete these files? Where are they from. Why don't they get cleaned up automatically? Any hint is appreciated :)



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    Hi Wolfgang,

     

    nuking them is totally up to you.. I personally am a pack rat, so I would not nuke them, but gz.tar / archive them.  I would just crontab it so they don't chew up inodes on the disk.

    to answer your question, this is the directory where messages are broken apart by the milter for scanning/processing ..  they are not technically required after the message is processed.

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    Red_Warrior said:

    to answer your question, this is the directory where messages are broken apart by the milter for scanning/processing ..  they are not technically required after the message is processed.

    Thanks a lot. Allmost of the files were older than 1000 days. So I've deleted it all. Don't know why PMX failed to cleanup after itself in this timeframe. Maybe we had an issue in a earlier version and didn't see it. It's clean now and a monitor is set up to see if it starts growing again. Deleting 732911 files took a few minutes, but it's clean now :)

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