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# 1  
Old 04-17-2007
Delete users
I just use find /var/spool/mail/ -size +100000k.
and found lots of files (users) at consol.
Now I want to delete all those users using userdel -r.

How I can combined those two command.

Rafiq...
# 2  
Old 04-17-2007
You did find any users. You found mail spools for users.
# 3  
Old 04-17-2007
Do you actually want to take care of the mail part or audit the system users ?
# 4  
Old 04-18-2007
Actually I found mail spooler of users. But I need to delete all users whos mail box is over 100 MB.

And that is my question.

Regards,
Rafiq...
# 5  
Old 04-18-2007
I am not sure that you want to do that. Are you saying that any user who has a mailbox over 100 MB has to be removed from the system? Or only their mailbox has to be truncated or deleted or some such thing?
# 6  
Old 04-18-2007
Dear blowtorch thankx for your relpy.

I just want to remove those users from my mail box who has over 100MB mail box.

Rafiq...
# 7  
Old 04-18-2007
If you only want to get rid of the mailboxes, you can just delete the spools.
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