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Re: Reserving space for mail on /var



--- Shri Shrikumar <shri@urbyte.com> wrote: 
> Hi All,

> What is the best solution for this? Do I have to create another mount
> point for /var/spool/mail ? Quotas perhaps? Alternatively, how can I get

You could do.

> syslog to ignore the lines that fill the log up.

Those files are handled by logrotate -- you can get that to delete them on
each rotation.

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