Tammy George wrote: > Thanks for the responses. > > Few questions - will running 'check_whitelist' affect our server's > performance? It really shouldn't. It's a pretty lightweight tool, and will only remove "one off" entries by default.
If you're concerned, you can also execute it through the "nice" command, which will lower its priority. > Do I risk creating other problems if I leave things as they are until > our sys admin returns? :) Not likely. The large AWL file might slow things down a little, but if you're load average isn't really high I wouldn't worry.