[ale] clearing out root's mail

[Jim Kinney]

MB the file and gzip. Then a new empty one will be generated.

 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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