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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:09:41 -0000
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ari_Sigur=F0sson?= <bsd@hrappur.solver.is>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: a few questions about freeBSD
Message-ID:  <004301c02314$cd900620$05aa90c2@solver.is>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009200813270.87276-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>

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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" <hacker@bolingbroke.com>
To: "Ari Siguršsson" <bsd@hrappur.solver.is>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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!
>
>
>
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