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. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
