[TriLUG] Reclaiming inodes

[Brian McCullough via TriLUG]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:21:45AM -0400, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list wrote:
> On Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:19:46 AM EDT Ron Kelley wrote:
> >What OS are you running (CentOS, Ubuntu, etc)?  The easiest fix is to simply
> >stop and disable the exim4 process.
> 
> Debian 8 
> 
> >Presumably, your OS is sending emails to an account due to some issue.  What
> >happens if you type ???mail??? from the CLI?  Do you get a list of email
> >messages?
> 
> I get a 
> "no mail for <username>"


The mail is most likely, in a Debian 8 system, for either "root" or some
other root-like person, which will all be delivered to root.

If you change your user to root, and then do "mail" again, you might get
a different answer.


Brian