[Dovecot] what are those .nfsXXXXX files with mbox ?

[Bertrand Leboeuf]

Thanks, 

Dovecot seems to create a lot because of the indexes, 
but they dissapear with the cron.

-Bert

>From: Jeff Ballard <ballard at engr.wisc.edu>
>
>
>There should be a cron job on the server that deletes those
>
>>From /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root:
>
>15 3 * * 0 /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind
>
>Looking at /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind:
># less /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind
>#!/bin/sh
># Copyright (c) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
>#ident  "@(#)nfsfind.sh 1.7     00/07/17 SMI"
>#
># Check shared NFS filesystems for .nfs* files that
># are more than a week old.
>#
># These files are created by NFS clients when an open file
># is removed. To preserve some semblance of Unix semantics
># the client renames the file to a unique name so that the
># file appears to have been removed from the directory, but
># is still usable by the process that has the file open.
>[snip]
>
>-Jeff
>
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