Getting closer?
I ran the line you gave me inside .Trash/cur where
there are 3000+ messages and it returned nothing. The
"modified" dates range from April to today although the
"accessed times all seem to be today just a few minutes ago. I
assume it's my running the script causing this.
I also reran
the line but used mtime and it returned about a dozen messages from
various dates. Nothing seemed to be in common.
>
Phil,
> The way I read the script is that it only deletes files
older than
> DELTIME and only files in the .Trash directories as
well as any files in
> directories below .Trash. Are you getting
any errors in the output
> file? Like "argument list too
long"?
>
> As for the user that has 3000 messages.
Are you saying the user has 3000
> messages in .Trash directory?
Whichever, you could cd to that users
> .Trash directory and run
this from the command line.
> # find . * -ctime +5 -exec ls -al
{} \; | more
> this will list any files with a ctime older than 5
days.
>
> I do not use dovecot so I cannot comment on
deleting index and
> dovecot-uidlist files. Interesting though.
Are the index and
> dovecot-uidlist files in .Trash or are they in
a directory below .Trash?
> I only ask that because the find
command can be instructed not to go
> that deep into the .Trash
directory.
> I doubt that dove-cot changes the ctime on these
files, but someone
> familiar with dove-cot would have to answer
that. ctime and mtime are
> confusing. Depending on the actions
taken on a file one or both times
> may or may not change.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> Phil
Leinhauser wrote:
>> Thanks for the info Dave. I did just what
you described except I
>> pushed it to a text file so I could
see better what was happening.
>>
>> I ran it with
the 5 day setting and didn't get anything. Then I
>> dropped
it to 2 days and got a list. The script is apparently working
>> but only on about half of the domains. I have other domains
that
>> never made it into the output.txt file. I know there
is trash there
>> because I have one user with over 3000
messages.
>>
>> I guess now the question is, does
the script just delete everything
>> older than DELTIME? or is
it looking for something to only get
>> messages? I see in the
output that it looks like it's going to delete
>> some index
and dovecot-uidlist files. Is this ok? What can I do to
>>
see why it's not finding all of the old messages?.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi Phil,
>> > The line you are looking at
>> >
PATH_TRASH="`find /home/vpopmail/domains -type d -name .Trash`"
is not
>> > the problem. By default "find" will
start looking in the path for
>> > files/directories and is
recursive. So it is starting in
>> > /home/vpopmail/domains
looking for any directories (-type d) named
>> > .Trash. So
it will find any .Trash directories living under
>> >
/home/vpopmail/domains.
>> >
>> > Looking at
/opt/qmailtoaster-plus/etc/cron.hourly/qtp-clean-trash the
>>
> real processing is done in the nested if statements. The script is
>> > written so that all output of the rm command is sent to
/dev/null. So
>> > you will never see what it is doing.
>> >
>> > Just to test the script, I copied it to
a new file called "myscript"
>> and
>>
> changed the following. Look for this line:
>> > rm -f
${file} >/dev/null 2>&1
>> > change it to this
>> > ls ${file}
>> >
>> > then run
myscript (make sure the script is executable)
>> >
>> > it should list all the files it would delete if the
original script
>> was
>> > run.
>>
>
>> > If it returns nothing, then you have no files
older than the default 5
>> > days in any .Trash directory
under /home/vpopmail/domains. I think I
>> > would then
change the line
>> > DELTIME=5
>> > to
>> > DELTIME=1
>> > in myscript and try it
again.
>> >
>> > Post back if it listed any
files.
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Eric Shubert
wrote:
>> >> That might be as a result of not having
everything under INBOX with
>> >> dovecot. I'll try to
have a look at it tomorrow.
>> >>
>> >>
Phil Leinhauser wrote:
>> >>> OK, I found the
qtp-clean-trash script and ran that. Qtprune is the
>>
>>> grandfather but basically the same. They are both looking in
.Trash
>> >>> for the
>> >>> old
messages. My system has them in .Trash/cur. It's not finding
>>
>>> the old
>> >>> ones. It only runs for a
second or 2. I expect it to run a few
>> >>> minutes
at
>> >>> least. I have a bunch of trash!
>> >>>
>> >>> -----Original
Message-----
>> >>>
>>
From: Jake
Vickers [mailto:j...@qmailtoaster.com] Sent: Wednesday,
>>
>>> September 09, 2009 8:39 PM
>> >>> To:
qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
>> >>> Subject: Re:
[qmailtoaster] qtprune
>> >>>
>>
>>> Phil Leinhauser wrote:
>> >>>> I just
decided to start running qtprune. It's the first time I've
>>
>>>> run it.
>> >>>> I'll cron it once
I'm happy with the results. What I see in the
>>
>>>> script is
>> >>>> that it seems to
be looking in the .Trash folder. The problem is
>>
>>>> that the
>> >>>> trashed messages
are actually in the .Trash/cur folder. Therefore,
>>
>>> qtprune
>> >>>> doesn't find them. In
fact, all of my folders are in the
>> >>>>
.something/cur
>> >>>> folder.
>>
>>>> 2 questions:
>> >>>> 1- Is this
because of dovecot? I don't ever remember the folder
>>
>>>> structure
>> >>>> before
dovecot.
>> >>>> 2- How can I change the script to
get them? PATH_TRASH="`find
>> >>>>
/home/vpopmail/domains -type d -name .Trash`" is the
>>
>>> line
>> >>>> in the script and I tried
to change it to .Trash/cur but I got an
>> >>>>
error:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> find:
warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes (though
>> >>>> pathnames do). That means that '-name
.Trash/cur' will probably
>> >>>> evaluate
>> >>> to
>> >>>> false all the
time on this system. You might find the '-wholename'
>>
>>>> test
>> >>>> more useful, or
perhaps '-samefile'. Alternatively, if you are
>>
>>>> using GNU
>> >>>> grep, you could
use 'find ... -print0 | grep -FzZ .Trash/cur'.
>>
>>>>
>> >>>> So, any ideas? I'm not a
linux scripter...
>> >>>>
>>
>>>
>> >>> qtprune? Or the qtp-clean-trash
script in Qmailtoaster-Plus?
>> >>> The one in QTP
works. I just tested it.
>> >>> It can be installed by
the qtp-menu and it runs as an hourly cron
>> >>> job.
It (by default) deletes messages older than 5 days, but this ca
>> >>> be changed by changing the value in the
>> >>> /etc/cron.hourly/qtp-clean-trash script (or by
creating a file
>> called
>> >>>
/var/qmail/control/deltrash and putting the number of days in the
>> >>> file).
>> >>>
>>
>>>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>
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