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Re: [cobalt-users] Flushing a mailbox
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Flushing a mailbox
- From: "Babu P. Yogarajah" <bpy@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Aug 28 20:57:29 2000
At 14:52 25/08/00 -0400, you wrote:
>> >> Login as root to your RAQ
>> >> then do
>> >> cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/USERID
>> >
>> >Even quicker.
>> >[root@host]# > ~mail/USERID
>> >
>
>hmm, the first deletes mail from the system spol, the second one deletes
>from the local users (delivered) mailbox....how are these the same?
No, both are same,
~mail equal to /var/spool/mail/
so ~mail/USERID equal to /var/spool/mail/USERID
-Babu