Greg Lopp on Fri, 3 May 2002 12:02:13 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] /var partition full


On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:23:37AM -0600, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> warning: this may be a repost
> 
> my /var partion on a RH7.2 box filled up yesterday - as a result, dhcpd
> stopped. it was cause the root mail file was 330M. what can i do to prevent
> this from happening again? 

The mailfile of the user "root" was 330M?  Make sure that root's
mail gets looked at.  Typical practice is to create an alias
which directs all mail for root to some user responsible for such
things.  Take a look at /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases






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