I like the smiley of death!
Wolf Halton
http://sourcefreedom.com
Apache developer:
wolfhal...@apache.org
On Sep 25, 2012 10:35 AM, "Jon Dowland" wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:52:24AM -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:
> > # echo "" > /var/spool/mail/root
> > will replace the content of the file wit
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:52:24AM -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:
> # echo "" > /var/spool/mail/root
> will replace the content of the file with an empty string
The smiley of death is better:
# :> /var/spool/mail/root
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25.09.2012 11:47, Hadi Motamedi:
> On my server , the /var/spool/mail/root is getting very big in size. To free
> up more space, can you please let me know how can I solve the problem ?
> Thank you
Probably the best way to solve the problem is to find out what the
*real* problem is. I. e. if roo
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:52:24 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE: /var/spool/mail ?
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Wolf Halton
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From: "Wolf Halton"
Date: Sep 25, 2012 6:50 AM
Subject: RE: /var/spool/mail ?
To: "Hadi Motamedi" ,
# echo "" > /var/spool/mail/root
will replac
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:19:06 +
Hadi Motamedi wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. Can you please let me know how can I delete
> them automatically or preventing from accumulating huge amount of
> mails there ?
Depending on your system configuration you can try this, put the
following line in y
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:13:38 +0100
> From: karl.jorgen...@nice.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: /var/spool/mail ?
>
> Hi
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:47:44AM +0100, Hadi Motamedi wrote:
> > Dear All
> > On my server , the /var/sp
Hi
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:47:44AM +0100, Hadi Motamedi wrote:
> Dear All
> On my server , the /var/spool/mail/root is getting very big in size. To free
> up
> more space, can you please let me know how can I solve the problem ?
Sounds like you have lots of mail accumulated in root's mailbox.
Jake Di Toro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there somewhere that explains the reasoning behind this?? I've
> only been in *nix for 10-12 years and on every system I've been on
> it's been /var/spool/mail (until I went to cyrus).
Most commercial Unices have been using /var/mail for the past dec
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:21:52PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
| On Fri, 01 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
| > Ok, when I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade two days ago /var/mail
| > was created, but I still have /var/spool/mail also and that's where my
| > system says I have mai
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:51:50AM -0500, Jake Di Toro wrote:
> At 01:21 PM 2/1/2002 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >The deal is that new systems get /var/mail, and old systems get a /var/mail
> >symlink to /var/spool/mail. All Debian packages are now to try to reference
> >the spool
At 01:21 PM 2/1/2002 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Fri, 01 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Ok, when I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade two days ago /var/mail
> was created, but I still have /var/spool/mail also and that's where my
> system says I have mail when it comes in.
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:09:36AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Ok, when I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade two days ago /var/mail
> was created, but I still have /var/spool/mail also and that's where my
> system says I have mail when it comes in. what's the deal here?
/var/spool/mail is u
On Fri, 01 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Ok, when I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade two days ago /var/mail
> was created, but I still have /var/spool/mail also and that's where my
> system says I have mail when it comes in. what's the deal here?
The deal is that new systems get /var/mail
also sprach Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.0253 +0100]:
> I noticed that there is a mail spool entry for the normal user created
> during the debian installation process. However, when I run adduser to
> create a new user, a mail file for that user is not created. Is this
> supposed to be done
I think I miss interpreted original poster's message. Vector send me
a following message. I hope this solves your problem.
> I'm replying to you off-list because I don't want this email address
> spammed to carnation. procmail will change the permissions on a
> mailbox when it delivers mail if
This seems to be issue of install script. You should be able to avoid
it by modifying post/pre install script.
You seem to use sendmail. Then file a bug to sendmail if this is their
fault. I think what they do is reasonable since script does not know
who should be the owner.
I am curious why t
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:12:18PM -0500, oneiros wrote:
> Use nfs-kernel-server, the userspace nfsd does not have the needed locking
> functionality. Plus, it's tons faster and a lot more reliable, which is
> always a good thing(tm).
Better yet, use Maildir mailboxes. Locking over NFS isn't re
Thus spake A Mennucc1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I have two machines with Debian potato on it,
> and kernel 2.2.17; first one is called Tonelli,
> second one is called Fubini
>
> I have install nfs-common and nfs-server on both
>
> when I try to read my email using mutt, it says
>
> fcntl errno
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:06:48PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote:
> debs,
>
> my non-root account is "bt," but my real email username
> is "pplaw ," which is not a "user" on any of my
> boxes. so, as "bt," when i execute mutt, i get
> "/var/spool/mail/bt," instead of
> "/var/spool/mail/pplaw."
>
>
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:59:41PM +0100, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> as you may have noticed I am just struggling around with new
> sendmail. After some work I got it to work but still I don't have the
> user-directories in /var/spool/mail, for example if naming the user
> j
On 11/23/99 03:55PM, David S. Jackson wrote:
>
> First, are you sure you can send mail? What tests have you run? Is this a
> first-time configuration, or have you gotten mail to work before?
>
Yes, I can send without problems. I've just been retrieving with
Netscape (and leaving the mail on the
So then Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said . . .
> Anyway, my problem is:
>
> I was trying to set up another box, and when all was done, I
> couldn't send/receive mail. Well, I could send it, but I couldn't
> receive it.
First, are you sure you can send mail? What tests have you run? Is this
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote:
: I have a pretty vanilla Debian 2.0 setup as of now. I installed smail as
: my mta (or is it mda?). I would like to change the default inbox from
: /var/spool/mail/user to /home/user/Inbox.
Smail is a MTA (Mail Transport Agent). procmail/deliver a
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