[leafnode-list] Re: spool full due to posted binarys

[Matthias Andree]

Brian D <groups at planet3.freeuk.co.uk> writes:

> On 21 Jul, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

>> find /var/spool/news/GROUP/NAME -size +31000c -exec rm '{}' ';'
>> texpire

> Thanks. I deleted most manually (they were xposted to two other (binary)
> groups so I had to delete three times. I only gained 3.7 meg until I ran
> texpire, which presumably deleted them from the message.id folder, then I
> gained about 3G of free space.

Exactly.

> Done that, and sorted out all the problems caused by running the server with
> no free space in /var.

That would probably just be another "texpire -r" run and perhaps
"fetchmail -f".

Anyways, what broke? Leafnode shouldn't need AVOIDABLE manual repairs
after running out of space. (More complex fixes will go into leafnode-2 only.)

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Matthias Andree