purging old mail

[mats.lindberg at se.transport.bombardier.com]

Jonathan McKeown <jonathan at hst.org.za> wrote on 2007-06-01 14:31:48:

> On Friday 01 June 2007 14:11, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> > mats.lindberg at se.transport.bombardier.com wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I'm setting up a FreeBSD 5.4 system that need to run unattended for 
a
> > > year or more.
> > > I've noticed that the /var/mail/root file grows a bit over time.
> > >
> > > Do I need to configure the system in some way to prevent this file 
from
> > > growing indefinately, filling up the /var partition?
> >
> > Are you actually interested in reading root mail?
> >
> > Are you running sendmail?
> >
> > If so, in the /etc/mail/aliases file, change the root alias to an 
email
> > address that someone actually POP's.
> >
> > If you don't want to read the email at all, change the root alias to
> > point to /dev/null.
> 
> What I've been caught by a couple of times is the periodic(8) routines, 
which 
> quickly fill roots mailbox with daily, weekly and monthly status 
reports.
> 
> If you're not going to forward these to a real user but still want to 
keep 
> (some of) them available, put
> 
> daily_output="/var/log/daily.log"
> weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log"
> monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log"
> 
> in /etc/periodic.conf. The relevant reports will be logged into the 
> respective 
> files, and newsyslog already knows to rotate these if they exist, so 
they 
> won't grow endlessly (by default, /etc/newsyslog.conf keeps a week of 
dailys, 
> 5 weeks of weeklys and a year of monthlys).
> 
> Jonathan

Thanks guys
This was really usefuk

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