Re: [cobalt-users] /var/spool/mail no space left.

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Gribbon, Richard" wrote:
> 
> What is a quick way to clean this area up?  Or can I assign more space to
> this file system?

Do an ls to see which user is eating up all your space.  Check that all
users are deleting their email after reading.  Send them all notices
letting them know if they don't, you will.  Then a few days later, just
do

# rm /var/spool/mail/username

to remove username's mailbox.  The next time s/he gets mail it'll get
recreated automagically.

You can give it more space if it's not already on /home by moving the
directory path to /home, which is much larger, and doing a symbolic link
from /var/spool/mail to /home/spool/mail.  If you do this, besure to
turn off sendmail while you're doing it, and turn it back on when you're
done.

Jeff
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