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.
put a .forward file in ~root on the machine pointing to the
administrator's email address where they can be read and/or
filed/deleted from a central location
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