On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 18:49 -0600, Syl wrote: > Thanks everyone for the great suggestions. I got things back in order and > now I can continue on with my research project. > > > # yum clean all > > This was an excellent suggestion! I have a cron job set up to manage this for me: [mymachine]# crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.17498 installed on Wed Oct 20 08:09:26 2004) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) 0 12 * * * yum clean packages > /dev/null 2>&1 I only clean the "packages" rather than "all" so as to save having to re-download the metadata every day if it hasn't changed. And the packages are much bigger than the metadata anyway. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
