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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Directory entries won't shrink 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:42:33 EST."
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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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