Re: Freeing some partition space...

From: Gustavo Seabra (seabra_at_ksu.edu)
Date: 01/26/05

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    Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:00:23 -0600
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    Paul Howarth wrote:

    >On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:51 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Paul Howarth wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>Fair enough; if you're a yum user, you may find that a significant space
    >>>saving can be made in /var by doing a "yum clean packages" periodically
    >>>(as root of course). I have a cron job to do this.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>How do I set up this cron job? is it just writing a script and dumping
    >>it in a cron directory, like /etc/cron.weekly ?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >All I did was, as root, run "crontab -e"; this pulls up your favourite
    >editor (probably vi by default) with your current root crontab file, to
    >which I appended the following line:
    >
    >0 12 * * * /usr/bin/yum clean packages >/dev/null 2>&1
    >
    >This runs the command "/usr/bin/yum clean packages" at twelve minutes
    >past midnight every day and discards any output it generates.
    >
    >You can run "crontab -l" to list the crontab file for the current user,
    >and "crontab -e" to edit see. See "man crontab" for details of the
    >crontab command, and "man 5 crontab" for details of the file format.
    >
    >Paul.
    >
    >
    Thanks a lot! 

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