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dustervoice

dustervoice

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Apr 2, 2009
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How do i erase mail from the root mailbox in centos?
 
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Give this a try -

cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/root

WARNING!!!! - This will delete ALL the root email.


Hope this helps,

Steve
 
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