old dirs with content in /var/spool/cyrus/mail/sync. on replication server

[Bron Gondwana]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014, at 08:56 PM, Marcus Schopen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on my replication I see about a thousand dirs, many of them a few month
> old. The total size of /var/spool/cyrus/mail/sync. is about 240 MB. Most
> of the dirs are empty, about 240 dirs containing files 
> 
> For today for example I do see some dirs which are all empty:
> 
> drwx------ 1354 cyrus mail   36864 Aug 26 12:40 .
> drwx------    2 cyrus mail    4096 Aug 26 12:43 22681
> drwx------    2 cyrus mail    4096 Aug 26 04:39 28130
> drwx------    2 cyrus mail    4096 Aug 26 05:09 28668
> drwx------    2 cyrus mail    4096 Aug 26 12:30 3257
> drwx------    2 cyrus mail    4096 Aug 26 05:39 4706
> drwx------    2 cyrus mail    4096 Aug 26 12:40 5630
> drwx------    2 cyrus mail    4096 Aug 26 01:39 8785
> drwx------    2 cyrus mail   12288 Aug 26 01:49 9707
> 
> What about the non empty directorys?

It's safe to remove them all when the server is down, or any of them which aren't currently in use (matching a process ID of an existing sync_server process) while it's running.

Bron.

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