[Pkg-dspam-misc] Bug#648949: dspam metadata files in /var/spool are not cleaned correctly

[David Cannings]

Package: dspam
Version: 3.6.8-9
Severity: important

This bug was previously reported (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522950) and is unresolved.

A cronjob is installed with dspam but it does not clean if the storage driver is 'hash'.

Previous advice in the archived bug suggested trying dspam_maintenance.sh, which is distributed by the upstream.  I have now tested this and it works successfully, once the correct paths are set at the start of the script.

This is still running on my machine and so far I have 1GB disk space back, which is not insignificant.

I suggest that dspam_maintenance.sh is shipped as part of the standard package and run instead of the current cronjob.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.9
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.26-kvm-i386-20101122 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dspam depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-18lenny7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdspam7              3.6.8-9           DSPAM is a scalable and statistica
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.11-1+lenny2.1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii  procmail               3.22-16           Versatile e-mail processor

Versions of packages dspam recommends:
ii  clamav-daemon       0.97.3+dfsg-1~lenny1 anti-virus utility for Unix - scan
ii  dspam-doc           3.6.8-9              Documentation for dspam

dspam suggests no packages.

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