Subj : Re: The var/ticqueue directory?
To   : Vince Coen
From : Rj Clay
Date : Sat Dec 02 2017 04:58 am

Hi Vince!

Vince Coen wrote to Rj Clay:
VC> Hello Rj!
VC> 
VC> Friday December 01 2017 08:44, you wrote to All:
VC> 
VC>  > All,
VC> 
VC>  >    What is the prupose of the var/ticqueue directory and does it ever
VC>  > get cleaned up? When I orignally went to bring up a backup of my
VC>  > MbseBBS system on a new system, I found files there going back some 10
VC>  > years.  'Course, most of those older ones would have been under v0.97,
VC>  > IIRC, as I didn't upgrade the install to a newer version until I had
VC>  > it running again...
VC> 
VC> 
VC> Hold all of the active .tic files so if empty you should have no o/p when
VC> running mbout sta  (apart from the headings and version info.

   So inactive .tic files would be ones that have already been sent, and at
least in more recent versions get automatically cleaed up?  (That was one of
concerns as lots of tiny files can really jump up inode usage...)
  
 
VC> So if restoring from an old back up suggest you delete them

  That, I've done.


VC> and likewise 
VC> the contents of var/bso/outbound*  but keep the directories.
VC> 
VC> outbound* = outbound.001 , .002, .003 and .004 your own zone will be just
VC> outbound without any number after.
VC> 
VC> Oh, you could also have other nets here as well so delete the contents.

   Hmmm...  I don't think I've really checked all of those, so I'll be
reviewing their contents.




Jame
 

    Greetings, Rj Clay
    email: admftn@ftn.rocasa.net

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