Steve Valliere wrote:
>
> While this question may make me look foolish...
>
> I cannot figure out what I missed in the vpopmail build/install process
> that is causing the build up of tcp.smtp.tmp.* files on my system. I need
> to support roaming users, so I built that in and followed all of the
> instructions as I understand them, yet the temp files just keep
> accumulating. I'm wary of just scheduling a cron job to clean them up,
> because I don't know exactly what part of vpopmail's system (or is it
> something caused by tcpserver or qmail? I doubt it.) is creating and/or
> using these files. My suspicion is that vchkpw is creating them after
> validating a user, but I don't know when they're incorporated into
> tcp.smtp.cdb, so I'm not sure when they're safe to delete.
>
> I think I've rambled enough. I hope someone will understand my question
> and be able to help me find a solution.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Valliere
Stray tmp files left behind was observed in an older version of
vpopmail. Details of the change are in the ChangeLog. I know
we fixed this in a later version, and the problem has not
come back. Perhaps upgrading would fix your problem.
Ken
