clear ROOT email from LINUX

mail -f /var/spool/mail/user
delete *
then q
(this clear all mail)

if somehow can not delete and get error “value too large for defined data type”

Clearing Email Sent To Mail Root:
cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/root

Clearing Logs:

cat /dev/null > /var/log/logname

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