RE: [AMaViS-user] amavis no longer works

[Bojan Z. <Boj...@LS...>]

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ama...@li... 
> [mailto:ama...@li...] On Behalf Of SM
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 April 2004 4:01 a.m.
> To: Kern, Tom
> Cc: Amavis-User (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis no longer works
> 
> Using Unix, I assume?  How many files and directories are in 
> /var/amavis?  Normally, I have seen this when a limit has 
> been hit.  I 
> think the standard is somewhere arround 64k.  The limit is in the ext 
> section in the kernel.

Yep, it's possible that he's reaching the limit. However, there is a cause
for that and amavis is saving files to preserve evidence.
So, he should, as a first step, see why that happens.

Also, if you have a busy server, I wrote a small perl program which checks
directories and deletes them if there is no amavis process in that
directory. I found that useful once when the quarantine failed, so at least
the server was working until we got there, so I just tossed it in cron to
run every hour or so.

Beware though - this *will* delete evidence you might have there and which
might be important for you to find out why amavisd had problems.

You can find the script at:

http://www.zesoi.fer.hr/~bzdrnja/amavis-clean.pl

Cheers,

Bojan