up2date and cache

John Wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Fri Feb 4 04:35:00 UTC 2005


Matej Badalič wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is there a way to clean the files which make up2date in /var/spool/up2date/ ?
> 
> I have found that for yum works if you type the command "yum clean all" but no 
> similar options for up2date in my man pages.
> 
> It is safe to manually delete those *.hdr files in /var/spool/up2date 
> directory? I have around 66MB in that directory and I really would like do 
> clean it (I use FC3).
> 
> Thanks for any reply.
> 
> Matej
> 

Perfectly safe, just rm those suckers! I do it all the time, never has 
caused a problem.

John




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