Hi all, I am silent user of the group. I am facing a problem for deleteing mails which are queued by sendmail function. I stopped the sendmail service. I tried rm * but I am getting message segmentation fault. The mails are in queue are around more than 100000. Can Anybody help me in this for deleting the mails.
regds, Anand
On 1 Jun 2004 15:01:17 -0000 "Anand Pandurang Shelake" anand_shelake@rediffmail.com wrote:
Hi all, I am silent user of the group. I am facing a problem for deleteing mails which are queued by sendmail function. I stopped the sendmail service. I tried rm * but I am getting message segmentation fault. The mails are in queue are around more than 100000. Can Anybody help me in this for deleting the mails.
rm might have a problem taking 100000 filenames on the command line. The files are usually numbered with a common prefix. Try deleting them in sets of 100-500. Its tedious but it'll get the job done.
If you're a scripter, writing a one-line Perl script will do you wonders.
hth, Zainul.
regds, Anand
for i in *; do rm -f $i; done
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:52:45 +0530, Zainul M Charbiwala zainul@ee.iitb.ac.in wrote:
On 1 Jun 2004 15:01:17 -0000 "Anand Pandurang Shelake" anand_shelake@rediffmail.com wrote:
Hi all, I am silent user of the group. I am facing a problem for deleteing mails which are queued by sendmail function. I stopped the sendmail service. I tried rm * but I am getting message segmentation fault. The mails are in queue are around more than 100000. Can Anybody help me in this for deleting the mails.
rm might have a problem taking 100000 filenames on the command line. The files are usually numbered with a common prefix. Try deleting them in sets of 100-500. Its tedious but it'll get the job done.
If you're a scripter, writing a one-line Perl script will do you wonders.
hth, Zainul.
regds, Anand
-- Zainul M Charbiwala http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~zainul/
This might also have problems since * is expanded by shell to reflect filenames in that directory. Shell might not be able to expand huge number of files in the directory. Better is to use find.
find . -type f -exec rm -f {} ;
Amitay.
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 22:18, Chandrashekhar Bhosle wrote:
for i in *; do rm -f $i; done
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:52:45 +0530, Zainul M Charbiwala
zainul@ee.iitb.ac.in wrote:
On 1 Jun 2004 15:01:17 -0000
"Anand Pandurang Shelake" anand_shelake@rediffmail.com wrote:
Hi all, I am silent user of the group. I am facing a problem for deleteing mails which are queued by sendmail function. I stopped the sendmail service. I tried rm * but I am getting message segmentation fault. The mails are in queue are around more than 100000. Can Anybody help me in this for deleting the mails.
rm might have a problem taking 100000 filenames on the command line. The files are usually numbered with a common prefix. Try deleting them in sets of 100-500. Its tedious but it'll get the job done.
If you're a scripter, writing a one-line Perl script will do you wonders.
hth, Zainul.
regds, Anand
-- Zainul M Charbiwala http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~zainul/
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:08:26 +0530, Amitay Isaacs amitay@aero.iitb.ac.in wrote:
This might also have problems since * is expanded by shell to reflect
Nope it doesn't have any such problems.
filenames in that directory. Shell might not be able to expand huge number of files in the directory. Better is to use find.
find . -type f -exec rm -f {} ;
Amitay.
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 22:18, Chandrashekhar Bhosle wrote:
for i in *; do rm -f $i; done
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:52:45 +0530, Zainul M Charbiwala
zainul@ee.iitb.ac.in wrote:
On 1 Jun 2004 15:01:17 -0000
"Anand Pandurang Shelake" anand_shelake@rediffmail.com wrote:
Hi all, I am silent user of the group. I am facing a problem for deleteing mails which are queued by sendmail function. I stopped the sendmail service. I tried rm * but I am getting message segmentation fault. The mails are in queue are around more than 100000. Can Anybody help me in this for deleting the mails.
rm might have a problem taking 100000 filenames on the command line. The files are usually numbered with a common prefix. Try deleting them in sets of 100-500. Its tedious but it'll get the job done.
If you're a scripter, writing a one-line Perl script will do you wonders.
hth, Zainul.
regds, Anand
-- Zainul M Charbiwala http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~zainul/
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