Alexander Wirt wrote: > severity 569150 wishlist > thanks > > Thomas Goirand schrieb am Mittwoch, den 10. Februar 2010: > >> Package: amavisd-new >> Version: 1:2.6.1.dfsg-1 >> Severity: important >> >> Hi, >> >> By default, Amavis jails all the virus or spams it finds in >> /var/lib/amavis/virusmails. I'm fine with this, but the folder is never >> cleaned. A cron job each weeks/months should be added to the package to >> delete spams that are X days old (my suggestion: make it at least 15 >> days, maybe 30). The issue could be a /var totally full (this happened >> to some of my customer's servers), which is very annoying. >> >> Something like this in /etc/cron.weekly/amavisd-new would do: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> >> find /var/lib/amavis/virusmails/ -type f -mtime +30 -delete >> >> and would be very easy to add in the package. Best would be to add this in >> both lenny-proposed-updates and sid if possible. > Eh no sorry, this should be up to the administrator.
NO! Debian should deliver software well installed and behaving themselves correctly in the system. > I will be maybe adding a config variable (disabled by default) to achieve > this. > > Alex Hi Alex, Thanks for your prompt reply and the time you take to maintain Amavis. I do not agree with the way you seem to see this. To me, this is a severity "important", and this could even have been promoted to RC, as filling up the /var can put in danger the full of the operating system. Please realize that BY DEFAULT, amavis should behave itself and shouldn't fill /var. Do NOT set something disabled by default please, do the clean on all installation by default (with a flag to disable if you like it, but I think a "do not be dumb" flag is useless... maybe a "how many days" variable make more sense). Please keep in mind that there's no sane administrator that would like to have /var filled with 3 years of virus/spam history. My proposed solution is trivial to implement. I've set back the severity to important. Please do not drop start a war and drop it to wishlist, thanks. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
