Why is /var so big?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 20.03.2005 schrieb Rob Rosenthal um 19:50:

> Okay, yum is broken. Here's the error message:
> 
> Unable to find pid
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 233, in main
>    clientStuff.get_package_info_from_servers(serverlist, HeaderInfo)
>  File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 838, in 
> get_package_info_from_servers
>    os.mkdir(servercache)
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/yum/base'
> 
> Now how do I fix it?

Execute as root: mkdir /var/cache/yum
Btw. you broke it yourself by deleting all the content below /var/cache/
(previous thread).

Alexander


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