On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Phillip Salzman wrote:
> I have a pair of servers that act as SMTP/AV gateways. It seems that
> even though we've told the AV software not to store messages, it is
> anyway.
>
> They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've noticed
> a lot of disk space d
On Thu, 2005-Jan-20 13:36:30 -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> Since the original poster was willing to use -rf, wouldn't it be
>better to do:
>
>cd /var/spool/directory ; find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
The original poster mentioned that "find" wouldn't work: find(1) uses
fts(3) which re
Darryl Okahata wrote:
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
> Slightly more typing, but more robust.
The find utility of FreeBSD knows a -delete option, e.g.:
find /path/to/your/directory -type f -delete
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Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would suggest trying this simple hack:
>
> cd /var/spool/directory ; cat . | strings | xargs rm -f
Since the original poster was willing to use -rf, wouldn't it be
better to do:
cd /var/spool/directory ; find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
instead of the shell
script.
Oh well. I can't really wo
> -Original Message-
> From: Wolfgang Zenker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: January 20, 2005 2:04 PM
> To: Phillip Salzman
> Cc: 'Peter Jeremy'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Very large directo
Hello Phillip,
> I've received a couple perl scripts from a few different people. I can't
> use any of them until this evening due to the current load of the machines
> though. Last night I ended up doing a strings on the directory, and taking
> its output into a for loop removing the files.
if
its output into a for loop removing the files.
--
Phillip Salzman
> -Original Message-
> From: Peter Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: January 20, 2005 3:46 AM
> To: Phillip Salzman
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Very large directory
>
>
> O
David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > I would suggest trying this simple hack:
> >
> > cd /var/spool/directory ; cat . | strings | xargs rm -f
> >
> > It's a dirty hack, but might work, if the file names in
> > that directory aren't too strange (no spaces etc
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 21:30:53 -0600, Phillip Salzman wrote:
> > They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've noticed a
> > lot of disk space disappearing. Shortly after that, a simple du into our
> > /var/spool r
Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 21:30:53 -0600, Phillip Salzman wrote:
They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've noticed a
lot of disk space disappearing. Shortly after that, a simple du into our
/var/spool returned a not so nice error:
du: fts_read: Cannot a
>
> From: "Phillip Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Very large directory
> I have a pair of servers that act as SMTP/AV gateways. It
> seems that even though we've told the AV software not to store
> messages, it is anyway.
>
> They've
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 21:30:53 -0600, Phillip Salzman wrote:
> > They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've noticed a
> > lot of disk space disappearing. Shortly after that, a simple du into our
> > /var/spool returned a not so nice
On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 21:30:53 -0600, Phillip Salzman wrote:
>They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've noticed a
>lot of disk space disappearing. Shortly after that, a simple du into our
>/var/spool returned a not so nice error:
>
> du: fts_read: Cannot allocate memory
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Dan Nelson wrote:
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I found this (lots of files in a directory) to be generally a Bad Idea.
Search performance tends to be poor even with the improvements in 5.x
While I'm not sure that it's possible to in this
In the last episode (Jan 19), Phillip Salzman said:
> I have a pair of servers that act as SMTP/AV gateways. It seems that
> even though we've told the AV software not to store messages, it is
> anyway.
>
> They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've
> noticed a lot of disk s
Hello,
I have a pair of servers that act as SMTP/AV gateways. It seems that even
though we've told the AV software not to store messages, it is anyway.
They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've noticed a
lot of disk space disappearing. Shortly after that, a simple du into
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