bee does not do the chores

[wwwutz]

wwwutz@eldersoftheinternet:bin (main)$ ls -l /dev/shm/
total 584
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      354 Jul  4 12:55 CONTENT.1.14239.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     6156 Jul  1 15:12 CONTENT.1.15949.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    48510 Jul 12 12:20 CONTENT.1.17568.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    21884 Jul  2 11:25 CONTENT.1.18083.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      354 Jul  4 12:56 CONTENT.1.18683.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      346 Jul  2 11:34 CONTENT.1.22893.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   141832 Jul 12 12:13 CONTENT.1.23166.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     1025 Jul  3 08:51 CONTENT.1.24806.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   200761 Jul  4 12:40 CONTENT.1.25318.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   141832 Jul 12 12:13 CONTENT.1.26290.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      777 Jul  2 11:42 CONTENT.1.28758.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      340 Jul  2 11:59 CONTENT.1.3031.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root        0 Jul  4 12:45 CONTENT.1.3770.tmp