[CentOS] Why I get this message " You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root " ?
Keith Keller
kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
Thu Dec 19 17:56:36 UTC 2013
On 2013-12-19, Norah Jones <nh.jones01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why I get this message " You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root " in CentOs?
>
> My queries are the following -
> 1. Why this is generated ?
Because root has mail in his mailbox.
> 2. How to disable this ?
You can disable the message with biff n (IIRC). You can also redirect
root's (future) mail to a user mailbox by modifying /etc/aliases and
running newaliases when done. (That will not do anything with mail
already delivered to root.)
> 3. Is this system generated ?
The message is system-generated. The mail is very likely output from
various system jobs, like cron jobs or other daemons. In theory a
person could have send a message to root but that's not very common.
> 4. Is this message gain any importance ?
The only way to know is by reading the messages! Some of them may
simply be informational, others may be important.
--keith
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