Re: Qmail-Scanner Working Directory Overfloweth

Matthew Goodman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Currently my /var/spool/qmailscan/working folder is not being cleared out.
>
> What exactly is in this folder, and why are there thousands and thousands
> of files in there? Is there any easy way to flush that out and recover the
> space?
>
> Every night my backup routine runs, it takes hours for this directory
> alone. Since the backup is disk-image based and not file/directory based,
> there is no way to exclude this directory.
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks.
>
> Matt
>   
Holy...

'working' should never have anything left behind.  That smacks of a 
permissions issue problem.  The files are created, read, and used, but 
can't be deleted.

what are the permissions and ownerships of the files in /working, as 
well as the main /qmailscan folder?


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