Hi I have a few cron reports that have been emailed to me but for the life of me I don't know how to delete them.
Its not a massive problem but I have always had this problem and when I log into the shell I get the same prompt you got mail :(
someone told me was as easy as typing.
mail
d *
but that doesn't seem to work any ideas? also Im running tiger
Stefan
stefanburt
06-01-2005, 11:57 AM
hahaha I killed the mail!!!!
cd /var/mail then using sudo rm *myusername
stetner
06-02-2005, 05:53 AM
The real solution is to fix your cron jobs, or create a .forward file to send it to the email account you use.
Cron will not mail anything if there is no output from your script/job, which is the way a cron script should be written, if it worked, no output at all. If there is output, generally you want to know about it, because it indicates something abnormal has happened.
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