[Spacewalk-list] /var/cache/rhn/xml-*

[Jan Hutař]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:49:00 +0000 Tony Dufour
<Tony.Dufour at gemalto.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have a Spacewalk 2.2 which is ISS master. I imported a lot
> of packages in my channels, and size of "/var/cache/rhn" has
> increased a lot :
> 
> [root at host ~]# du -sxh /var/cache/rhn/*
> 743M    /var/cache/rhn/repodata
> 999M    /var/cache/rhn/reposync
> 2.5M    /var/cache/rhn/xml-channel-packages
> 1.7M    /var/cache/rhn/xml-channels
> 9.1G    /var/cache/rhn/xml-packages
> 156M    /var/cache/rhn/xml-short-packages
> 
> Does anyone know what are the /var/cache/rhn/xml-* about ?
> I guess it's related to ISS.
> 
> Is it possible to clean this in a secure way, or this data are
> needed ?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your advices,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tony

Hello,
I guess you have already deleted it right? I have just moved it
(to have backup) and did a channel dump (rhn-satellite-exported)
and it worked, so I guess it is safe to delete.

Regards,
Jan



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