On Friday 01 June 2007 14:11, Steve Bertrand wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm setting up a FreeBSD 5.4 system that need to run unattended for a > > year or more. > > I've noticed that the /var/mail/root file grows a bit over time. > > > > Do I need to configure the system in some way to prevent this file from > > growing indefinately, filling up the /var partition? > > Are you actually interested in reading root mail? > > Are you running sendmail? > > If so, in the /etc/mail/aliases file, change the root alias to an email > address that someone actually POP's. > > If you don't want to read the email at all, change the root alias to > point to /dev/null.
What I've been caught by a couple of times is the periodic(8) routines, which quickly fill roots mailbox with daily, weekly and monthly status reports. If you're not going to forward these to a real user but still want to keep (some of) them available, put daily_output="/var/log/daily.log" weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log" monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log" in /etc/periodic.conf. The relevant reports will be logged into the respective files, and newsyslog already knows to rotate these if they exist, so they won't grow endlessly (by default, /etc/newsyslog.conf keeps a week of dailys, 5 weeks of weeklys and a year of monthlys). Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
