Hello i need to reduces the size of the mail of root (var/mail/root),
I have mail from last year.
how can i do it?
thank you for your time.
This will delete all mail for user root:
cat /dev/null > /var/mail/root
yes , thank you for the answer but i don�t wan�t to remove all the mail i wan�t to leave last ten o 20..can be done?? thank you very much
I think you can specify a range to delete.
Like if you have 14020 mails, you could delete 14000:
mailx -N
> d 1-14000
> q
Or something like that. Do a search on the forum, there a few other threads on this already.