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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:45:44 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Directory entries won't shrink 
Message-ID:  <61955.1003423544@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:42:33 EST." <20011018114233.C97943@dan.emsphone.com> 

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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:42:33 EST, Dan Nelson wrote:

> Just renaming the directories should be enough.  I don't know how exim
> works, but can you disable a particular spoolfile while you rename it,
> or simply kill -STOP exim while you run that for loop?  It shouldn't
> take more than .01 second to run.

I guess I could send 600 STOP signals.  I'll take a look at how exim
deletes files on successful delivery.

Thanks,
Sheldon.

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