From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 15:59:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20B437B43C for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 15:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA79973; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:59:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:59:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: Questions list Subject: Re: full var directory In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 May 2001, G. Jason Middleton wrote: > why is my damn var directory full? In my experience, it's because root's mailbox (in /var/mail) gets filled up with the stuff sent to root by cron every day. I log in as root every once in a while and delete some mail; helps to keep things clear. HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <-> ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message