On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 03:44:32AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > * Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca>, 20010401 22:41 +0200: > > Previously I could not delete mail. NOt clear whether being in the mail group is > > appropriate... > > Just to delete mail, you might try "cat /dev/null > > /var/spool/mail/$YOU" not a good idea unless you lock your mailbox first, man lockfile. if you don't lock your mailbox you might get a message delivered right before you zero out your mailbox, in which case you lose it. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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