On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:01:01PM -0600, Kip Turk wrote: > I installed Qpopper4.0.3 today with the following options: > > ./configure --enable-debugging --enable-servermode --enable-specialauth > --disable-shy --enable-hash-spool=2 --with-log-facility=LOG_LOCAL0 > --enable-timing --enable-temp-drop-dir=/var/poptemp --with-drac > > This is the same configuration I used with 3.1.2, with the exception of > adding --with-drac. DRAC is working fine, however, I'm now seeing a ton > of .username.cache files inside /var/poptemp. This was a fresh tar.gz > file and it compiled and worked fine on another system (one RH 6.2 and > one RH 7.1 in fact). This system is another RH 6.2 and this seems to be > the only issue. I've tried setting --disable-cache-dir in the > configuration options, but it's ignored. I can't find any files that > would contain a run-time option. I've verified that /etc/inetd.conf > looks to /usr/bin/popper and manually copied the compiled binary into > place to insure it was using the correct one. Any ideas what could > possibly be wrong here? I'm currently running a cron once a minute to > delete the .cache files, but I'd much rather have the mystery explained.
"It's a feature." No, really. The cache files store the precomputed UIDLs on messages in the mailbox, and some similar information, so that qpopper does not need to scan the mailbox every time it's invoked if there are no new messages. I'm not sure if you can disable it - there's probably a way - but if you do it will slow down your qpopper startup times and put extra load on your system. In general, caches are good, and these files are small so shouldn't be eating up unnecessary amounts of disk space. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWJD? "JWRTFM!" - Scott Dorsey (kludge) "JWG" - Eddie Aikau
