Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:59:58 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Ames <steve@ns1.cioe.com> To: dannyman@dannyland.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, lambert@csw.net Subject: Re: Expiring old mail? Message-ID: <199810292259.RAA15139@ns1.cioe.com> In-Reply-To: <19981029151229.Y8390@enteract.com>
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Run 'cucipop'... it has some flags for dealing with this. Dunno how well
they actually work :)
-steve
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently ran into a problem with my mail server. The /var/mail disk filled
> > up. (not good)
> >
> > Anyway after several hours of "mail -f username" and deleting 7 month-old un-
> > read messages and > 1 month-old read messages, I freed up approximately 700MB
> > of disk. (Why do people subscribe to every mailing list on the planet and
> > not read their mail?)
>
> Heh, I have a little script I used to use for just this sort of situation,
> which would write a script to move the largest spools into user home
> directories.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "#!/bin/sh" > movemail
> rm /home/`whoami`/mail-abusers
> ls -ulsk /var/mail | sort -rn | head -25 | awk '$4==$10 { print "\n#"$4" size "$6" last mod "$8" "$7" "$9"\nmv /var/mail/"$4" /home/"$4"/INBOX\nchown "$4" /home/"$4"/INBOX\necho -n \""$4", \" >> /home/djhoward/mail-abusers" }' >> movemail
> #echo "rm movemail" >> movemail
> chmod 755 movemail
> $EDITOR movemail
> echo "Okay, now you can sudo ./movemail at your discretion."
>
> Not the cleanest or prettiest script, by any means, but that fouth line always
> gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.
>
> HTH,
> danny
>
> --
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> \\/ http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ || an Honorable Retirement (UIUC)
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