Editing Routine Maintenance (section)

== Free up space on mail ==

You can clear out root mail:
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mail /var/log# ll -h /var/mail/root
-rw-------  1 root  mail    543K Dec 19 13:05 /var/mail/root
mail /var/log# rm /var/mail/root
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Or you can archive mail logs:
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mail /var/log# ls -l htt*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  297436931 Dec 19 13:26 httpd-access.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    9824324 Jul  4 11:34 httpd-access.log.old.0.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    6884137 Mar 17  2012 httpd-access.log.old.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   18557444 Dec  3  2009 httpd-access.log.old.10.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   14740263 Jan  9  2007 httpd-access.log.old.11.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   14209465 Nov 28  2007 httpd-access.log.old.12.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   16874396 Feb 19  2012 httpd-access.log.old.3.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   14554859 Jul 22  2011 httpd-access.log.old.4.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   10513227 Feb 18  2011 httpd-access.log.old.5.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    7201946 Oct 29  2010 httpd-access.log.old.6.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   10062537 May  6  2010 httpd-access.log.old.7.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   10157042 Aug 12  2010 httpd-access.log.old.8.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   11909534 Mar  4  2010 httpd-access.log.old.9.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   59030930 Dec 19 13:01 httpd-error.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    3413134 Mar  4  2010 httpd-error.log.0.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     795515 May  1  2007 httpd-error.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    1142153 Nov 30  2007 httpd-error.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2325801 Feb 18  2011 httpd-error.log.gz

mail /var/log# sh
# for f in 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0; do g=`echo $f+1|bc`; mv httpd-access.log.old.$f.gz httpd-access.log.old.$g.gz; done
# mv httpd-access.log httpd-access.log.old.0
# touch httpd-access.log
# apachectl restart
# gzip httpd-access.log.old.0

# for f in 2 1 0; do g=`echo $f+1|bc`; mv httpd-error.log.$f.gz httpd-error.log.$g.gz; done
# mv httpd-error.log httpd-error.log.0
# touch httpd-error.log
# apachectl restart
# gzip httpd-error.log.0
# exit
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