[ale] clearing out root's mail

[scott mcbrien]

If you're not interested in saving the e-mail, cat /dev/null >
/var/spool/mail/root

I know a bunch of people are going to flame me for that, but if root's
e-mail is that cumbersome, then it's not getting read anyway.  You
might consider cutting down on the verbosity or amount of the e-mail
being generated, or send it to someone other than root by putting in a
mail alias, so that at least someone looks at it.

-Scott

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stupid auto spell check on Droid. mv not mb
>
> On Jan 6, 2010 10:25 AM, "William Fragakis" <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running Centos 5.4. Root's mail file has grown to a cumbersome size.
> I'd like to clear it out but if I follow the advice I've been able to
> googe and dum/delete/create new  the file (/var/spool/mail/root),
> sendmail rebuilds it to the original size.  Is there a step I'm missing?
>
> thanks,
> William
>
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