Delete large amount of spam

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> writes:

> Is there an easy way to delete a very large amount of spam 
> in /var/spool/amavis/
> Rm doesn't work, message is too many arguments.

If "rm" complains about about the number of arguments on the command
line, you can list all the files using "ls" and pipe them into "xargs
rm" that will run the "rm" command on smaller chunks:

ls * | xargs rm

I don't know if simply deleting files in the amavis spool is a good
idea though. 

> I started to delete them in as large chunks as possible, but gave up after 
> about 6 hours.
> Konqueror isn't able to display all files
>
> -- 
> Thomas
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