From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 13 14:53:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04847 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:53:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04842 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id HAA25082; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 07:23:02 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id HAA27896; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 07:22:57 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981014072256.T21983@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 07:22:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: ron@netassociates.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clearing /var/mail References: <75B246B6570BD211815E0060B057850148E7@naeugnt1.netassociates.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <75B246B6570BD211815E0060B057850148E7@naeugnt1.netassociates.com>; from ron@netassociates.com on Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 01:38:31AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 13 October 1998 at 1:38:31 -0700, ron@netassociates.com wrote: > I have a mail server that has 29727 for mail. Sorry, I don't understand. Is this the number of blocks in the files in the directory? > It is currently at 78% full. I don't have that much mail setting > the mailboxes of the clients. Sorry, I don't understand that sentence either. Are you saying that the file sizes don't add up? If so, do you have files starting with a period (they're used by pop). > It was at 11% a few days ago. What is causing it to be full Files > and how can I fix it. Remove them. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message