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Re: [cobalt-users] 3500 emails on admin account

At 05:14 PM 9/7/01, Brian M. Rahill wrote:

SSH/Telnet into your box.
su
cd /home/spool/mail
ls -l

-- look for an account that is 0 bytes (i.e. someuser)

cat  someuser > admin


That's one way to do it; you could also say:

echo -n > admin

...which echoes exactly nothing, not even a newline.

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Ted Behling, Web Application Developer - Monarch Information Systems, Inc.

43 Folly Field Road, Unit 4, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928-5434
E-mail: mailto:TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone/Fax: 1-800-842-7894    Local or Outside the USA: 1-843-842-7894
Cell Phone (urgent issues): 843-816-7895
Cell Phone E-mail: mailto:TedPhone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (116 letter limit)
Web site: http://www.MonarchIS.net
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