On 4/1/2013 5:54 PM, Bruce Whealton wrote: > Not it is the /etc > partition that is full every other day. It is a 10GB partition and most of > the data is in the mail spool directories. the /etc directory A) shouldn't be a separate partition, it should be on / and B) should just contain system configuration files, in no way should there be anything like mail spools in there. the standard place for mail spools is /var/spool/mail the rest of your message was just a little too run on and too many different things jammed together for me to want to make sense of. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast