getting too many mails for daemon user.

[conniefu]

Hi there,

I have several questions about daemon's mail.

1. Is /var/spool/mail/daemon for storing daemon's email?

2. Is it related to the cron daemon?

3. If this file is huge, does that mean there is something misconfigured? if not, how to regularly clean it up?

Thanks in advance. I am not able to find useful information from AIX site.

Connie

 

[AIXSPadmin]

The local mailer daemon is set to send messages to the user daemon and is configured in /etc/sendmail.cf .

If the file is large then you should read the mail for the daemon user and correct anything that is an error. Some are just informational messages but some are actual errors and they can be generated by cron commands.