diff --git a/masses/rule-qa/corpus-hourly b/masses/rule-qa/corpus-hourly
index 8c49013..6eb114a 100755
--- a/masses/rule-qa/corpus-hourly
+++ b/masses/rule-qa/corpus-hourly
@@ -446,6 +446,8 @@
       }
       close(IN);
       for (sort sort_all @output) { print OUT; }
+      unlink "$opt{tmp}/ham.log.$$";
+      unlink "$opt{tmp}/spam.log.$$";
     }
     elsif ($age eq "age") {
       my @output;
@@ -476,6 +478,8 @@
         close(IN);
       }
       for (sort sort_all @output) { print OUT; }
+      unlink "$opt{tmp}/ham.log.$$";
+      unlink "$opt{tmp}/spam.log.$$";
     }
     elsif (@ham && @spam) {
       # get logs
@@ -486,6 +490,8 @@
       open(IN, "./hit-frequencies -TxpaP $flags $opt{tmp}/spam.log.$$ $opt{tmp}/ham.log.$$ |");
       while(<IN>) { print(OUT); }
       close(IN);
+      unlink "$opt{tmp}/ham.log.$$";
+      unlink "$opt{tmp}/spam.log.$$";
     }
 
     $bytes = (-s OUT);