Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:52:24 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE: /var/spool/mail ?
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Wolf Halton
http://sourcefreedom.com
Apache developer:
[email protected]
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From: "Wolf Halton" <[email protected]>
Date: Sep 25, 2012 6:50 AM
Subject: RE: /var/spool/mail ?
To: "Hadi Motamedi" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
# echo "" > /var/spool/mail/root
will replace the content of the file with an empty string, however you might
want to see what has been accumulating there.
Usually you get system events notifications. You might or might not care about
those. My servers send crontab results notifications and I like to periodically
audit those to make sure they are working.
To automatically purge the root mail file, you could just add a crontab line
for root of the above command preceeded by
0 0 1 * *
that purges the file once per month. It is a little like pasting a happyface
sticker over your car's oil pressure readout, so I would suggest not doing it
that way, but instead going in and find the issues behind the symptom of "full
root mailbox."
Wolf Halton
http://sourcefreedom.com
Apache developer:
[email protected]
On Sep 25, 2012 6:25 AM, "Hadi Motamedi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:13:38 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: /var/spool/mail ?
>
> Hi
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:47:44AM +0100, Hadi Motamedi wrote:
> > Dear All
> > On my server , the /var/spool/mail/root is getting very big in size. To
> > free up
> > more space, can you please let me know how can I solve the problem ?
>
> Sounds like you have lots of mail accumulated in root's mailbox...
>
> Do you read and delete the mail that is sent to root?
>
> --
> Karl E. Jorgensen
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Thank
you for your reply. Can you please let me know how can I delete them
automatically or preventing from accumulating huge amount of mails there ?
Thank you very much for your help.
