From: Solar Designer (solaropenwall.com)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 11:59:35 CST

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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:44:15PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > - rmdir /var/spool/postfix/[^m]*
> > + rmdir /var/spool/postfix/[^m]* || true

> This will cause rpm to happily move on no matter what the error, which
> isn't the intended behaviour.

Actually it is.

The purpose of this rmdir is to remove directories which are empty,
but leave around those which aren't such that you don't lose your
queued e-mail messages just because you happened to (temporarily?)
uninstall Postfix.

If you install Postfix but don't use it and just uninstall, then
everything gets removed cleanly.

> - rmdir /var/spool/postfix/[^m]*
> + find /var/spool/postfix \( -type d -name "[^m]*" \) -delete

This is very different: find is recursive. A similar effect to the
rmdir may be achieved with find -maxdepth 1, but I don't see the need.

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