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My system is old. Not debian. My email looks like this:
/var/spool/
ls -l
total 19388
drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 18837504 mqueue/
How do I clear out the mqueue directory? I don't want to delete it....just clear it out of the email that is clogging up my var partition. This old command doesn't seem to work anymore:
That command will just delete all files in that directory, but won't work as is as there is no space between the rm and the following '{}'. What is the difference between "delete" and "clear out" here?? if that find command was working then just type it correctly and you'll be fine.
no matter how I write the command it just tells me that 'mqueue is a directory' and does not delete the files inside mqueue. find /var/spool/mqueue -exec rm '{}' \;
The screen asks if I want to delete (message 1)?
It asks that for each message. If I type 'y' as a reply, it goes to message 2 and asks the same question. If I answer y for all messages it only goes thru about 10 messages and stops. No differece is noted in the size of the mqueue directory.
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