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Delete all root mail / inbox from a shell prompt

Posted by Vivek Gite [Last updated: November 1, 2007]

Q. I've CentOS Linux acting as router for our small community based college. I see logwatch and other cron job generating emails for root account. How do I delete those emails? I don't want to disable email facility but just wanted to get rid of all root emails.

A. The easilst way is to empty root / users email message file i.e. /var/spool/mail/root or /var/spool/mail/username. Simply type the following command at shell:
> /var/spool/mail/root

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