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Topic: cronjob that deletes quarantined mails

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Hi,

i noticed the following problem with the cronjob that deletes the quarantined mails older than 15 days.

crontab of user amavis
# Delete virus mails which created 15 days ago.
1   5   *   *   *   find /var/lib/amavis/virusmails/ -ctime +15 | xargs rm -rf {}

If i receive no infected mail for more than 15 days the cronjob also deleted the directory /var/lib/amavis/virusmails/.
After this quarantined mails are stored in a single file /var/lib/amavis/virusmails and not in a directory. And the cronjob results with an error that the directory does not exist.

My solution/workaround:
Because it is easier to change the modify date i do a touch on the directory first. And i use -mtime instead of -ctime.

# Delete virus mails which created 15 days ago.
1   5   *   *   *   touch /var/lib/amavis/virusmails ; find /var/lib/amavis/virusmails/ -mtime +15 | xargs rm -rf {}

Cheers,
Stefan

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2 (edited by djfake 2014-05-09 02:45:33)

Re: cronjob that deletes quarantined mails

I get this email every day, to amavis@mydomain

subject: Cron <amavis@mydomain> find /var/lib/amavis/virusmails/ -ctime +15 | xargs rm -rf {}

find: `/var/lib/amavis/virusmails/': No such file or directory

Where did you change the cron line for amavis?

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Re: cronjob that deletes quarantined mails

Found it, crontab -e -u amavis