On May 28, 2004 12:08 am, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hello, > My Mail boxes are getting quite large and I was wondering if anyone had a > script to append and gzip the files and touch new ones? -- > Jake Johnson > http://www.plutoid.com Jake, Sounds like a fairly simple exercise if you just want to archive them without worrying about access to recent mail. If you want to read into the files and zip whats older than a certain date, that is a bit more work. I beleive sendmail will just create any files needed so all you need to do is stop sendmail and any pop/imap servers, then zip the dir and store it somewhere (or each file), remove the existing files, restart the services. As far as a script, you need to know what services might be accessing the mailbox files. If it is only sendmail: #!/bin/bash MAIL_DIR="/var/spool/mail" DATE=` date +%y-%m-%d` /sbin/service sendmail stop tar zcf /archives/mailboxes_$DATE $MAIL_DIR rm -f $MAIL_DIR/* /sbin/service sendmail start # each critical step should be checked for success before moving on. This is totally untested. Hope that points you in the right direction. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
