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# 1  
Old 11-06-2008
How to empty mail root
Hello i need to reduces the size of the mail of root (var/mail/root),
I have mail from last year.

how can i do it?

thank you for your time.
# 2  
Old 11-06-2008
This will delete all mail for user root:

Code:
cat /dev/null > /var/mail/root

# 3  
Old 11-06-2008
yes , thank you for the answer but i donīt wanīt to remove all the mail i wanīt to leave last ten o 20..can be done?? thank you very much
# 4  
Old 11-06-2008
I think you can specify a range to delete.
Like if you have 14020 mails, you could delete 14000:

Code:
mailx -N
> d  1-14000
> q

Or something like that. Do a search on the forum, there a few other threads on this already.
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