From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 12: 9:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFAF237B405 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 69192 invoked by uid 100); 18 Oct 2001 19:09:37 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15311.10481.310163.291734@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:09:37 -0500 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Directory entries won't shrink In-Reply-To: <114830987@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn types: > 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. I don't know exim, but I suspect that killall could help with sending 600 STOP signals. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message