Clearing the cache

David Rees drees at greenhydrant.com
Wed Mar 30 19:25:54 UTC 2005


On Wed, March 30, 2005 10:22 am, Paul Pettit said:
> I know that this is more a yum question but since I only use yum for FL
> updates ...
>
> How often should you clear the cache in yum? When is the best time
> (before or after an update) to clear the cache? Server only uses yum for
> FL updates (as stated above) so is it a big deal to just leave the files
> there indefinately or should I set it to clean up often.

I clear the cache nightly in my yum cron script when there are no packages
to be updated.

-Dave




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