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[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Feb 24, 2014 6:51 PM, "John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net>
wrote:
>> /var/spool/nullmailer/queue
> As you suggested, I went there and found 5 files dating back to Nov,
2013, the most recent being yesterday.  They are all identical:
>
> oot at sentry10
> root at sentry10
>
> Received: (nullmailer pid 3951 invoked by uid 0);
>     Sun, 17 Nov 2013 11:06:11 -0000
> From: Anacron <root at sentry10>
> To: root at sentry10
> Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on sentry10
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 03:06:11 -0800
> Message-Id: <1384686371.621317.3943.nullmailer at sentry10>
>
> /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common:
> flashplugin-installer: downloading
http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.327.orig.tar.gz
> Installing from local file /tmp/tmpjWNv0u.gz
> Flash Plugin installed.
>
> I understand that I can delete them, but how can I stop them from
happening and giving all the errors.  My machine has slowed a lot recently,
and I attribute it to all of these errors.
>
> John

ln -s /var/spool/nullmailer/queue /dev/null

It is very unlikely that that is slowing your system, unless you are using
a 486 or something. Pentium 1 perhaps.
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