On 2013-12-19, Norah Jones <nh.jone...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why I get this message " You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root " in > CentOs? > > My queries are the following - > 1. Why this is generated ?
Because root has mail in his mailbox. > 2. How to disable this ? You can disable the message with biff n (IIRC). You can also redirect root's (future) mail to a user mailbox by modifying /etc/aliases and running newaliases when done. (That will not do anything with mail already delivered to root.) > 3. Is this system generated ? The message is system-generated. The mail is very likely output from various system jobs, like cron jobs or other daemons. In theory a person could have send a message to root but that's not very common. > 4. Is this message gain any importance ? The only way to know is by reading the messages! Some of them may simply be informational, others may be important. --keith -- kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
