<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Michael Still <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stillwaxin@gmail.com">stillwaxin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
yeah but you might actually read it if it were to go to an account<br>
that you actually looked at.<br></blockquote><div><br>so create a user called "null" in home dir "/dev" ..... <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Jim Popovitch <<a href="mailto:jimpop@gmail.com">jimpop@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 13:40, Michael Still <<a href="mailto:stillwaxin@gmail.com">stillwaxin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> personally i would setup /etc/aliases and forward root mail to<br>
>> somewhere else. problem solved :)<br>
><br>
> O_o Apparently something is sending a lot of email to root... moving<br>
> it off the box into another location doesn't exactly solve the<br>
> problem.<br>
><br>
> -Jim P.<br>
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</div>it does solve the problem of having /var/spool/mail/root rapidly growing :)<br>
<br>
but maybe what the real benefit is, is that if it were to go to an<br>
account you actually read, you'd take some action on whatever was<br>
filling it up.<br>
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