Leo Spalteholz wrote:
I was looking through my drive trying to figure out what was taking up
so much space when I stumbled across my mail file in /var/mail/. It was
over 800MB!
It contained a ton of output from the command line: errors, commands
typed, program output etc.. Most of it was the output from the yes
command when I accidentally ran it in the background once and didn't
notice for a while :P. Why would it send stuff like that to my user
account? How do I stop it?
But in asking such a question any reply such as this one seems futile.
If you are not reading your email then you will not get this reply
either. Not reading your email how do you expect to read any
responses to your question?
Bob
No I think you misunderstood me. This is only local mail. I am checking
my regular email through Mozilla. This is something else. Seems to be just
mail from local users. For example I get mail from root@localhost or leo@localhost.