Wow. Unfortunately, impossible to do any of that w/o hiring someone (very little Unix knowledge). I don't mind losing the junk emails that the system has sent, & can go in periodically & delete the future emails that the system sends now that I have learned my lesson...so if I deleted the /var/spool/mail/root file, do you think it would regenerate the root file the next day? (the mbox file on the root level is only 18 megs. The root file is 304megs) I already periodically delete the /var/tmp/hostmibd.log periodically with no problem. Thanks Derek
From: euglug-boun...@euglug.org [mailto:euglug-boun...@euglug.org] On Behalf Of Michael Miller Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:52 AM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Unix AIX 5.1 - Can't access Mail program/need to delete large Mail file So what I would do is stop the MSA/MTA. (Sendmail Postfix whatever.) I would then save off the mbox file or maildir file depending on how it's setup up. After saving off that data I would then cat /dev/null > {mbox} or rm -rf the maildir. Recreate the mbox file or maildir file an restart the MSA/MTA. You should be fine after that you might also think about redirecting said e-mail on AIX box to another address. That way you don't have to run into this issue again. -mmiller On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:51 AM, French, Derek <derek.fre...@learningservicesus.com<mailto:derek.fre...@learningservicesus.com>> wrote: Using Unix AIX 5.1 box, and unfortunately let mail file get too large (304megs), and now I can't get into the Mail program to delete the emails at the root directory because it says, "/tmp : No space left on device." I don't see any other large files/am uncomfortable deleting any other files in the /var/tmp folder, so...can I delete the large mail file that is at the path /var/spool/mail/root and still be ok, i.e. it will regenerate the file when I try and get back into the mail program? Or will it permanently delete the Mail program? Thanks for your help. P.S. I have very little Unix knowledge. Derek _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org<mailto:euglug@euglug.org> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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