MLUG: RE: [MLUG] /var/spool/up2date
RE: [MLUG] /var/spool/up2date
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of McNutt, Justin M.
> Sent: 07 November 2002 12:58
>
> Okay, I've been doing a little surfing around, and as far as I
> can tell, I should be able to delete everything in this
> directory, but I thought I'd run this by you guys first just to be safe.
>
> The /var/spool/up2date directories on a couple of servers I
> maintain have grown *quite* large over time.  One of them is 800+
> MB!  (It's been around since RedHat 6.2).  Naturally, I'm looking
> to clean them out.
>

/usr/sbin/up2date --configure

Then change keepafterinstall from 'Yes' to 'No' and up2date will no longer
keep the packages locally after they've been installed.

Russell.

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