[Maia-users] amavis tmp dir huge: why?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Greets, fellow maia-users,

today I noticed that /var on one of my servers was pretty filled up.

23GB used of 30GB size was quite unusual, so I fired up "du" and found
that /var/spool/amavis/tmp used 15GB alone.

/var/spool/amavis = home-dir of vscan, the user running amavisd-maia

There were so much files in it that I couldn't even run "rm -fr *" in it
(sure, I stopped amavisd-maia before ...), so I moved it aside, set up a
new /tmp, restarted amavisd and then went ahead to just erase the whole
renamed directory.

My question: Why does that happen? Shouldn't the temporary files get
deleted by amavisd-maia? Anything I should set up additionally?

The machine is running Suse Linux 10.0, and has a current uptime of
nearly 280 days, though I think this shouldn't be related to growing
tmp-dirs.

Now I have 20G of 30 free again, so there is space for quite some spam
again ;)

Please let me know what could have been the reason, or if I missed to
set up something.

Thanks, Stefan