Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Justin Kim wrote:
>> I have a little problem.
>> I set Amavisd-new to pass all the messages to the end users.
>> It flags 'spam' and then passes.
>> But still the system is using /var/virusmails directory to keep the  
>> messages
>> in gzip format.
>> I guess it is for the business reason if we want to keep the  
>> messages for
>> certain preiod of time in case the user asks to recover it.
>> But this /var/virusmails directory is filling up fast and keep  
>> growing.
>> I don't know how to manage this.
>> I cannot even list the files in the directory because there are too  
>> many.
>> Is there any solution for this?
>> And what can I do to manage this directory so that I only keep 30  
>> days worth
>> of message zipped?
> 
>    Uhh:
> 
> # find /var/virusmails -ctime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
> 
>           -Dave
> 

Oh, careful.  This will cause a enormous number of exec's for a 
directory with an enormous number of files.

Better to use:

   # find /var/virusmails -ctime +30 -print | xargs /bin/rm -f

MrC

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