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do i need to keep the latest folders in there?<br />
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what does the command -rf do?<br />
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thanks<br />

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do i need to keep the latest folders in there?

what does the command -rf do?

thanks


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just checked what rf does so thats fine, just worried that deleting the whole contents will cause issues.<br />
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Should this folder clear itself down?
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just checked what rf does so thats fine, just worried that deleting the whole contents will cause issues.

Should this folder clear itself down?

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Well I dont think that it should clean itself no..you could write a script to make it clear itself once it reaches some limit size..are there any config files in your scan folder ?
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Well I dont think that it should clean itself no..you could write a script to make it clear itself once it reaches some limit size..are there any config files in your scan folder ?

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no just a whole list of folers from june 2005 up to today.
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no just a whole list of folers from june 2005 up to today.

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so you can remove them...if you receive an error due to the large number of files<br />
try<br />
ls /var/spool/exim/scan/* | rm -rf
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so you can remove them...if you receive an error due to the large number of files
try
ls /var/spool/exim/scan/* | rm -rf

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Hi<br />
<br />
I have a Gentoo box adding as a mailscan server with spamassasion and clav av.<br />
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/var/spool/exim/scan seems to get very large and there are folders from two years ago in it. &nbsp;Can i delete these as the server is now full and stopped passing email?<br />
<br />
thanks<br />
<br />
Tim
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Hi

I have a Gentoo box adding as a mailscan server with spamassasion and clav av.

/var/spool/exim/scan seems to get very large and there are folders from two years ago in it.  Can i delete these as the server is now full and stopped passing email?

thanks

Tim

/var/spool/exim/scan filling up in Gentoo

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