Re: purging old mail
Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2007-06-01 14:31:48: 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 Thanks guys This was really usefuk ___ This e-mail communication (and any attachment/s) may contain confidential or privileged information and is intended only for the individual(s) or entity named above and to others who have been specifically authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose the contents of this communication to others. Please notify the sender that you have received this e-mail in error by reply e-mail, and delete the e-mail subsequently. Please note that in order to protect the security of our information systems an AntiSPAM solution is in use and will browse through incoming emails. Thank you. _ Ce message (ainsi que le(s) fichier/s), transmis par courriel, peut contenir des renseignements confidentiels ou protégés et est destiné à l?usage exclusif du destinataire ci-dessus. Toute autre personne est par les présentes avisée qu?il est strictement interdit de le diffuser, le distribuer ou le reproduire. Si vous l?avez reçu par inadvertance, veuillez nous en aviser et détruire ce message. Veuillez prendre note qu'une solution antipollupostage (AntiSPAM) est utilisée afin d'assurer la sécurité de nos systems d'information et qu'elle furètera les courriels entrant. Merci. _ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
purging old mail
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? If so - how? Mats Lindberg ___ This e-mail communication (and any attachment/s) may contain confidential or privileged information and is intended only for the individual(s) or entity named above and to others who have been specifically authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose the contents of this communication to others. Please notify the sender that you have received this e-mail in error by reply e-mail, and delete the e-mail subsequently. Please note that in order to protect the security of our information systems an AntiSPAM solution is in use and will browse through incoming emails. Thank you. _ Ce message (ainsi que le(s) fichier/s), transmis par courriel, peut contenir des renseignements confidentiels ou protégés et est destiné à l?usage exclusif du destinataire ci-dessus. Toute autre personne est par les présentes avisée qu?il est strictement interdit de le diffuser, le distribuer ou le reproduire. Si vous l?avez reçu par inadvertance, veuillez nous en aviser et détruire ce message. Veuillez prendre note qu'une solution antipollupostage (AntiSPAM) est utilisée afin d'assurer la sécurité de nos systems d'information et qu'elle furètera les courriels entrant. Merci. _ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: purging old mail
[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. Then run 'newaliases'. I've found that the postmaster account is much more prone to filling up a partition, so ensure that you redirect this address as well. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: purging old mail
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]
Re: purging old mail
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:45:49AM +0200, [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? If so - how? You could either create a routine to rotate the file - maybe syslogd could do it. Or, set up an alias to forward the email messages to another place. These would be log and security messages. You could forward them to /bin/null, but I think it is bad form to automatically nuke security messages. Note also that /var/log will grow over time. The usual solution is to use the syslog utility to manage those files so they roll over at appropriate times and old ones eventually get removed at some interval you set. jerry Mats Lindberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: purging old mail
Hi there, I use an application that you can find in /usr/ports/mail/archmbox. Using it with crontab, you can make it delete you x days old mails from any file in mbox format. I use it in my newsletter mbox, so I don´t have to worry about old mail. 0 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/archmbox -k -o 30 /home/bsdserver/mail/FreeBSD-Questions []´s -- Rafael Mentz Aquino BSDServer - FreeBSD - Servidores - Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] 51 - 4063 - 6269 51 - 9725 - 4311 -- Original Message --- From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:51:31 -0400 Subject: Re: purging old mail On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:45:49AM +0200, [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? If so - how? You could either create a routine to rotate the file - maybe syslogd could do it. Or, set up an alias to forward the email messages to another place. These would be log and security messages. You could forward them to /bin/null, but I think it is bad form to automatically nuke security messages. Note also that /var/log will grow over time. The usual solution is to use the syslog utility to manage those files so they roll over at appropriate times and old ones eventually get removed at some interval you set. jerry Mats Lindberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. --- End of Original Message --- -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
