From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 20 8:20: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hrappur.solver.is (hrappur.solver.is [194.144.170.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157A037B422 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaze (really [194.144.170.5]) by hrappur.solver.is via smail with smtp id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:32:41 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <004301c02314$cd900620$05aa90c2@solver.is> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ari_Sigur=F0sson?= To: References: Subject: Re: a few questions about freeBSD Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:09:41 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thank you all I have removed this file now and have a happy 10% usage on /var :) problem solved and I do not really care who created this file! but should freeBSD not clean tmp folder autumatically for me? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Bolingbroke" To: "Ari Siguršsson" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 3:15 PM Subject: Re: a few questions about freeBSD Yes, that's safe to remove. That is created when a mail message is interrupted or unable to be delivered. You or someone else on the system apparently tried to send a 270+M email message... Ken On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, [Windows-1252] Ari Siguršsson wrote: > is it safe to remove > -rw------- 1 root bin 284323946 sep 20 14:20 dead.letter > in /var/tmp > ??? > and what is this file and why is it there? > > > thanks in advance > again! > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message