Recently I was presented with a problem where mail server was dying because of 100K+ mails in queue.
Due to spool overload it was necessary to identify a pattern and delete it from the /var/spool/postfix/incoming/ and later this needed to be applied for certain inboxes that were filled with spam. Continue reading “Grep pattern in files if found delete the file”
If you are like me using Kodi (XBMC) library to manage all your multimedia files you are probably used to updating and cleaning your library after adding or deleting new files.
My library at the moment consists of 15121 files total, but after examining it in PHPMyAdmin I have noticed that files table contains also some entries that point to non-existing idPath from path table and other files that are pointing to a path that is non-local (HTTP or plugin instead of regular system path). Continue reading “How to additionally clean-up Kodi MySQL database from unwanted entries”
One thing that comes very handy is usage of cron to make scheduled job to delete old files so that you can free up some space on your hard drive
# Delete Apache logs older than 60 days
find /var/log/apache2/ -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;With this simple script you will search through Apache logs in folder /var/log/apache2, select the ones with access time older than +60 (60 days) and execute delete with rm command.