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Old 09-25-2012, 04:59 AM   #1
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/var/spool/mail ?


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 my problem ?
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well you can just delete it, but you should really look at the mail inside it. It's *probably* stuff coming from cron, so you can disable reporting from cron by changing the "mailto" value in /etc/crontab
 
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Thank you very much for your help.
 
  


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