[ale] clearing out root's mail

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Michael Still <stillwaxin at gmail.com> wrote:

> yeah but you might actually read it if it were to go to an account
> that you actually looked at.
>

so create a user called "null" in home dir "/dev" .....

>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 13:40, Michael Still <stillwaxin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> personally i would setup /etc/aliases and forward root mail to
> >> somewhere else. problem solved :)
> >
> > O_o Apparently something is sending a lot of email to root... moving
> > it off the box into another location doesn't exactly solve the
> > problem.
> >
> > -Jim P.
>
> it does solve the problem of having /var/spool/mail/root rapidly growing :)
>
> but maybe what the real benefit is, is that if it were to go to an
> account you actually read, you'd take some action on whatever was
> filling it up.
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