[CentOS] Control what messages go into /var/spool/mail/root

[John R Pierce]

Yungwei Chen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I found some info messages below in /var/spool/mail/root.
>
> To reduce the size of that file, I'm wondering if there's a way to 
> prevent those unimportant messages from entering /var/spool/mail/root. 
> Thanks.
>
> 2010-05-10T10:32:27-05:00 <authpriv.info> se1 su: 
> pam_unix(su-l:session): session closed for user root
>
> 2010-05-10T10:01:28-05:00 <local1.info> se1 Keepalived_vrrp: 
> VRRP_Instance(VI_1) Received lower prio advert, forcing new election
>
> 2010-05-10T10:02:02-05:00 <syslog.info> se1 syslog-ng[12531]: Log 
> statistics; dropped='tcp(……)=0', processed=…..
>


um, that looks like stuff I'd expect to see in /var/log not in 
/var/spool/mail