Re: [CentOS] Why I get this message You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root ?

2013-12-23 Thread John Doe
From: Norah Jones nh.jone...@gmail.com Why I get this message  You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root   in CentOs? My queries are the following - 1.  Why this is generated ? Because a mail was sent to the root user... 2. How to disable this ?    MAILCHECK   Specifies

[CentOS] Why I get this message You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root ?

2013-12-19 Thread Norah Jones
Hi, Why I get this message You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/rootin CentOs? My queries are the following - 1. Why this is generated ? 2. How to disable this ? 3. Is this system generated ? 4. Is this message gain any importance ? Thanks, Norah Jones

Re: [CentOS] Why I get this message You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root ?

2013-12-19 Thread Jake Shipton
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 09:45:26 + Norah Jones nh.jone...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Why I get this message You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root in CentOs? My queries are the following - 1. Why this is generated ? 2. How to disable this ? 3. Is this system generated ? 4. Is this

Re: [CentOS] Why I get this message You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root ?

2013-12-19 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-12-19, Norah Jones nh.jone...@gmail.com wrote: Why I get this message You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/rootin CentOs? My queries are the following - 1. Why this is generated ? Because root has mail in his mailbox. 2. How to disable this ? You can disable the message

Re: [CentOS] Why I get this message You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root ?

2013-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Norah Jones nh.jone...@gmail.com wrote: 4. Is this message gain any importance ? No one else can decide what is important to you. But it can be things like 'your hard disk is about to fail'. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] Why I get this message You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root ?

2013-12-19 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 09:56:36AM -0800, Keith Keller wrote: You can disable the message with biff n (IIRC). You can also redirect root's (future) mail to a user mailbox by modifying /etc/aliases and running newaliases when done. (That will not do anything with mail already delivered to