[rt-users] Big size of /opt/rt4/var directory

[Ivan Osipov]

06.01.2014 20:44, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 01:31:23PM +0400, Ivan Osipov wrote:
>> I'm using Request Tracker 4.2.1 and Lighttpd (1.4.28-2ubuntu4) via
>> fastcgi on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
>> Now size of "/opt/rt4/var" directory is 5.2 Gb and full backup
>> archive of "/opt/rt4/" is very big.
>> In this directory a lot of folders with random name:
>> ---
>> ls -la /opt/rt4/var
>> [...]
>> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 19:19 xO_kAcCdQA
>> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 20:34 xR08jEpXhN
>> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 18:21 y2A3tJXMy8
>> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 21:01 Y5mPEdMSWh
>> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 17:42 yBixm9CtAO
>> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 17:41 yeihY9J9VX
>> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 22:25 yKjJdoKUNU
>> [...]
>> ---
>> Can I delete all this folders from "/opt/rt4/var"? If yes, how to
>> delete this folders automaticaly? This is cache of attachments?
> When you ran file on one of these, or opened one up in a text editor,
> what was the content of the files?
Every these folder contain *.html with mail message body and attachments 
in base64.
Also all this folders has been changed in one day - 30 Dec 2013.
I'm using fetchmail. May be this folders created by rt-mailgate?

>
> RT wouldn't normally write things into /opt/rt4/var.  Subdirectories
> of /opt/rt4/var sure, but not the top level.
>
> -kevin

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan Osipov