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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              --- MBSE BBS v1.0.6.8 (GNU/Linux-i386)        * Origin: ftn.rocasa.net (1:120/544)    |
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