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Old 01-25-2011
Need to know command to delete more than 3 million files from /var/spool/clientmqueue
Hi

I need to delete more than 3 million files from /var/spool/clientmqueue. When I give the following command to delete the files, I get the error

Code:
# pwd
/var/spool/clientmqueue
# rm -f *
/usr/bin/rm: arg list too long

Please tell me how can I delete the files
Last edited by pludi; 01-25-2011 at 10:51 AM..
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Old 01-25-2011
Presumably you are not starting "sendmail" but have applications (or cron jobs) which cause mail.
There is a discussion about this directory, why it can get high numbers of files, and how to clean it in this link.
Huge disk usage on /var/spool/clientmqueue - comp.unix.solaris | Google Groups
Check that the circumstances match yours before deleting all files.
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Old 01-25-2011
You could try:

Code:
# cd /var/spool
# find clientmqueue -exec rm {} \;

Use this ONLY if you want to delete ALL messages in the queue.

HTH
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Old 01-25-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by bluescreen
Code:
# find clientmqueue -exec rm {} \;

Use this ONLY if you want to delete ALL messages in the queue.
This would be quite slow with 3 million files. A slight change ('+' vs '\;') will highly improve the removal performance:
Code:
# find clientmqueue -exec rm {} +

This User Gave Thanks to jlliagre For This Post:
methyl
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Old 01-25-2011
Nice catch! Smilie
# 6  
Old 01-28-2011
My big thanks to methyl , bluescreen & jlliagre. Sorry for relying you late as I wasn't well.
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