Root is probably locally receiving logwatch and other various email messages. Take a look at the manpage for mail. Become root, run the 'mail' command, and delete some of the old emails. Going forward, you could/should consider forwarding mail destined for root to some mailbox you check. ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 // On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Hadi Motamedi <motamedi24 at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Dear All > On my server , the /var/spool/mail/root is getting very big in size . To free up more space, can you please let me know how can I solve my problem ? > Thank you > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos