Freeing some partition space...

Gustavo Seabra seabra at ksu.edu
Wed Jan 26 22:00:23 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:51 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
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>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>
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>>>
>>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 ?
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>>
>
>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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