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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Nothing happens when I type /var/spool/mail/root to purge the root user’s mail messages.
I think you meant,
#cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/root
– Nirmal.
Cheers, had forgotten all anout dev/null, thanks!
You just did oversee the > in front of /var/spool/mail/root
Works like a charm…
Thank boss……..it’s an important command