Beartooth: >> I've been advised that three commands are good to run at long >> intervals : yum clean all, updatedb, and rpm --rebuilddb; but I have >> no sense of time, and I was very absent-minded even before I got old. Patrick O'Callaghan: > There's no reason to do any of these unless there's something actually > wrong. Seconded. When things are working fine, yum takes care of itself. You *might* want to clear out downloaded packages, if drive space is important to you. Though I like to keep them, so I can revert to an older package, should I have to recover from a fault, without having to trawl the internet looking for a mirror that still has them. If you never want to keep them, you can set yum to not cache downloaded packages. updatedb is usually already run as a daily CRON task. Rebuilding the RPM database without good cause would actually be a potential way to cause a problem. If the RPM database is failing during use, then deliberately fooling with it again is increasing the risk of another accident. That's something I'd definitely not do unless I needed to. Sounds like we need a couple of housekeeping FAQs for current versions of Fedora (keeping a running system good, and sorting out common problems). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
