Stan Ryckman found the following in his backup directory:
| /disk3/home/stanr/Mail 119) ls -la backup
| total 22
| drwx------ 2 stanr 512 Nov 11 21:00 .
| drwx------ 3 stanr 2560 Nov 11 21:11 ..
| -rw------- 1 stanr 3063 Nov 4 03:31 .nfsA0c724.4
| -rw------- 1 stanr 1780 Nov 3 23:00 .nfsA47da4.4
| -rw------- 1 stanr 849 Nov 3 23:22 .nfsA481f4.4
| -rw------- 1 stanr 2293 Nov 11 11:28 .nfsA737d4.4
| -rw------- 1 stanr 2598 Nov 11 20:39 msg.HCJB
| -rw------- 1 stanr 3127 Nov 11 21:00 msg.ICJB
| -rw------- 1 stanr 1884 Nov 11 20:45 msg.KCJB
| /disk3/home/stanr/Mail 120)
|
| Any ideas what might make those .nfs* files? They contain
| messages which seem to have been successfully processed by
| procmail in the later parts of the .procmailrc . However,
| I doubt they'd ever get cleaned up if I didn't discover them.
Those look like some of the temporary names procmail uses while it is trying
to write a file out, which it renames if things go well. I noticed that they
all came from a 4h 31 span overnight; perhaps there was some systems work
being done on your machine that screwed things up?
May I recommend this?
:0 ic
| cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* .nfs* | sed -e 1,3d`