On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:05:09PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007, Grant Peel wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My ports collection on some of the servers is wasting alot of > > space. > > > > What would be the best method to 'cleanout' the ports dir without > > adversly affecting the operation of the rest of the server? > > > > All of the servers are live production servers. > > > > -Grant > > There are a few possibilities. > > 1) cd to each installed ports dir and do a make clean > 2) do the same but a make distclean > 3) rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work > 4) rm -rf /usr/ports and recvsup the tree > > -- > Thanks, > > Josh Paetzel
or you can put the following in a script # cleaning all work directories of install ports. plist=`pkg_version -voI |awk '{ print $1 }'` for porg in $plist ; do cd /usr/ports/${porg} && make clean done -- Alexander FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"