How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at digitaltorque.ca
Mon Jan 1 15:52:46 PST 2007


On 1/1/07, Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net> wrote:
> It doesn't hurt anyone but is it possible to disable its creation?

Not sure if there's an easier way, but you could always patch it and
rebuild it.

Or, you could just put a wrapper around it that removes the file after
creating it.

Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
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