Hmmm, well the mail is the stock ones from the composer of the Slakware
distribution, Patrick Volkersomethingorother. I'd like to hang on to them.
I could
mv /var/spool/root /var/spool/nobody
The linux box in question is an IP-Masquerade and does not receive mail.
It does not have a domain-name.anything and its IP address is
dynamic. So I am not worried about anyone sending it mail.
:-|
Thanks,
Chuck
Jack Barnett R wrote:
>
> >
> > In the same vein:
> >
> > I have not installed any 'mail' programs on my linux IP-Masq server.
> > Everytime I log on as 'root' I get
> > 'You have mail'
> >
> > May I simply
> > rm /var/spool/root
> > ?
> > Regards,
> > Chuck
>
> Sure can, but if anyone sends an email to root@yourmachine it will
> (re)create that file, also if you delete that file, it will delete any
> mail that is contained in there, might want to see what is in there first.
> Also any mail files in your ~ directory should (could) be removed, make
> sure you do a backup and know how to restore, just in case.
>
> Bud
>
> >
> >
> > Goody wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there any way to get Netscape to read mail out of /var/spool ?
> > >
> > > --
> > > g o o d y @ v o i c e n e t . c o m
> > >
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> >
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