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   Rj Clay to Vince Coen   
   Re: The var/ticqueue directory?   
   02 Dec 17 04:58:10   
   
   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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