-----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:42 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Sugestions - System E-mail We have a large amount of redhat servers (50+). They all run various cronjobs as root and other users that have accounts on the machines. The scripts and cronjobs generate output which is mailed to the local user on the machine. Standard cron stuff. My issue is that these system mails unfortunately rarely get read by anyone. As a result the files in /var/spool/mail on the servers continue to grow. In the past people used to just turn off sendmail, but they did not realize that /var/spool/clientmqueue/ just fills up with all the undeliverable mail. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle these system mails on a large amount of servers? I guess if you really don't care about the mails, you could link to /dev/null. But that seems a little drastic. Hello: I setup forwarding or sendmail aliases for all the system related IDs such and daemon, bin, adm, mail ... to go to root and then have root's email go to my Outlook email address. Yes I have to use Outlook at work. Then if I am on vacation I have root's email sent to someone else that will read and follow up if needed. Then in your email program you can put certain messages in certain folders or what ever you want to do with them, like ignore them. --- Talk 2 U later. Jack Allen -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
