From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 8:21:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032D837B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 08:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244722E460 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:21:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4GFLHD22661; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:21:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) X-Authentication-Warning: onceler.kciLink.com: khera set sender to khera@kcilink.com using -f To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: full var directory References: From: Vivek Khera Date: 16 May 2001 11:21:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "CH" == Chris Hill writes: CH> In my experience, it's because root's mailbox (in /var/mail) gets filled CH> up with the stuff sent to root by cron every day. I log in as root every CH> once in a while and delete some mail; helps to keep things clear. You *really* should alias root mail to go to a real user in your /etc/aliases file. Really. Logging in as root to read mail is just asking for trouble some day... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message