On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:19:41PM +0200, Ricardo Kustner wrote:
when i decided to have a look at the qfiles directory, I noticed that there were more than 22,000 files (yikes!) in that directory... dating back to july 17...
You'd probably do best to rename the 'qfiles' directory and create a new one, then move the remaining messages over to the new one. After storing 220000 files, your qfiles directory is likely to be a few hundred kbytes, making it very slow on access, and this can seriously hamper your machine, especially if it's a busy one.
Do it like this, after disabling qrunner in crontab and making sure none is running:
mkdir qfiles.new chown mailman.mailman qfiles.new chmod 2775 qfiles.new mv qfiles qfiles.old ; mv qfiles.new qfiles mv qfiles.old/*.db qfiles mv qfiles.old/*.msg qfiles
The last precaution shouldn't be necessary if no qrunner is running, but what the hell, it doesn't hurt to be careful.
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