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--- Begin Message ---
Package: exim
Version: 3.35-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Currently, only some of the hints db's in /var/spool/exim/db are
periodically cleaned. When you enable certain features in the config
file, more of such db's are created, which all need a periodical
tidy-up, to prevent unlimited growing.
This patch will add a very simple script which loops through all db's,
and tidies them. Manpage included.
N.B.: patch was made against exim-3.36-4 (current unstable), but will
probably work from exim-3.36-2 onwards.
diff -rNu exim-3.36.old/debian/crontab exim-3.36/debian/crontab
--- exim-3.36.old/debian/crontab Sun Dec 22 13:42:21 2002
+++ exim-3.36/debian/crontab Sun Dec 22 20:21:20 2002
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@
08,23,38,53 * * * * mail if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f
/etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi
# Tidy databases
-13 6 * * * mail if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then
/usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi
-17 6 * * * mail if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then
/usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp >/dev/null; fi
+13 6 * * * mail if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb_all ]; then
/usr/sbin/exim_tidydb_all -q; fi
diff -rNu exim-3.36.old/debian/exim_tidydb_all exim-3.36/debian/exim_tidydb_all
--- exim-3.36.old/debian/exim_tidydb_all Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
+++ exim-3.36/debian/exim_tidydb_all Sun Dec 22 20:20:40 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+# Tidy all hints databases
+
+# Written by Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+SPOOLDIR=/var/spool/exim
+
+if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
+ exec 3>&1
+ QUIET=0
+elif [ "$#" -eq 1 -a "$1" = "-q" ]; then
+ exec 3>/dev/null
+ QUIET=1
+else
+ cat <<-USAGE
+ Usage: $0 [-q]
+ $0 will tidy up all exim databases, so that data is
+ eventually purged from them.
+
+ $0 should be run as mail or as root
+
+ -q means: run quietly
+ USAGE
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+cd $SPOOLDIR/db
+for db in *; do
+ case "$db" in
+ *.lockfile) continue ;;
+ retry) OPT='' ;;
+ reject) OPT='' ;;
+ wait-*) OPT='' ;;
+ serialize-*) OPT='' ;;
+ *) echo "Unrecognized database found: $db" >&2; exit 1
+ esac
+ /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb $OPT $SPOOLDIR $db >&3
+done
diff -rNu exim-3.36.old/debian/exim_tidydb_all.8
exim-3.36/debian/exim_tidydb_all.8
--- exim-3.36.old/debian/exim_tidydb_all.8 Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
+++ exim-3.36/debian/exim_tidydb_all.8 Sun Dec 22 20:23:23 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+.TH exim_tidydb_all 8 "22 dec 2002"
+.SH NAME
+exim_tidydb_all \- program to tidy all exim db's
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B exim_tidydb_all [-q]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The exim_tidydb_all script executes exim_tidydb on all db's found in the exim
+spool directory. It is meant to be run out of cron, for example weekly.
+
+Exim only uses these databases for performance hints such as caching of failed
+hosts, the worst that can possibly happen is that some of this information is
+lost when it shouldn't.
+
+The exim_tidydb_all script must be run as the
+.I mail
+user, or of course root.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B -q
+Only output errors.
+.SH CAVEATS
+Even if the
+.I retry_data_expire
+option is set very high (over 30 days, not recommended), exim_tidydb_all will
+still purge 30-day old data from the retry database, thus imposing an upper
+limit on retry_data_expire.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+exim_tidydb(8)
+.SH AUTHOR
+This manual page was written by Jeroen van Wolffelaar
+<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -rNu exim-3.36.old/debian/rules exim-3.36/debian/rules
--- exim-3.36.old/debian/rules Sun Dec 22 13:42:21 2002
+++ exim-3.36/debian/rules Sun Dec 22 19:57:19 2002
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
cd ../bin; ln -sf ../sbin/exim mailq; \
cd ../lib; ln -sf ../sbin/exim sendmail )
install debian/newaliases debian/tmp/usr/bin
+ install -m 0755 debian/exim_tidydb_all debian/tmp/usr/sbin
install -m 0755 debian/init.d debian/tmp/etc/init.d/exim
install -m 0755 debian/cron.daily debian/tmp/etc/cron.daily/exim
install -m 0644 debian/crontab debian/tmp/etc/cron.d/exim
@@ -76,7 +77,8 @@
# Install documentation
cp debian/exicyclog.8 debian/exigrep.8 debian/exim.8 debian/exim_db.8 \
debian/exim_dbmbuild.8 debian/exim_dumpdb.8 \
- debian/exim_fixdb.8 debian/exim_tidydb.8 debian/eximstats.8 \
+ debian/exim_fixdb.8 debian/exim_tidydb.8
debian/exim_tidydb_all.8 \
+ debian/eximstats.8 \
debian/exinext.8 debian/exiwhat.8 debian/exiqsumm.8 \
debian/eximconfig.8 debian/newaliases.8 debian/rmail.8 \
debian/rsmtp.8 debian/runq.8 debian/sendmail.8 debian/mailq.8 \
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux square 2.4.20-rc1 #1 Fri Nov 8 11:33:42 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=POSIX
Versions of packages exim depends on:
ii cron 3.0pl1-72 management of regular background p
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb2 2:2.7.7.0-7 The Berkeley database routines (ru
ii libident 0.22-2 simple RFC1413 client library - ru
ii libldap2 2.0.23-6 OpenLDAP libraries.
ii libpam0g 0.72-35 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpcre3 3.4-1.1 Philip Hazel's Perl Compatible Reg
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.36-18.2+rm
The exim package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/420191 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
Barry deFreese
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