Delete large amount of spam

[Alain Spineux]

On 8/16/07, Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> wrote:
>
> 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


This will not work for the same reason of "rm *" is not working :-)

ls | xargs rm

should work

and to be really sure (to bypase any "ls" aliases):

/bin/ls | xargs

Regrads

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
> >
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