You will need a carefully curated /etc/sysclean.ignore file. You decided to put maildirs somewhere on the system, sysclean is not omniscient, you need to tell it to leave them alone. Same with .git directories. I don't recall needing to tell it about package config files though, that's a bit weird.
It's a bit daunting on first run if a lot of cruft has accumulated over the years, but it gets better. I'm using it for years, and I can't recall the last time I had to add anything to the ignore file. I run it from daily and also by hand after every upgrade to a snapshot. If it outputs a really long list I cleanup incrementally, for example: sysclean | fgrep /usr There really shouldn't be a false positive there, so after review I run sysclean | fgrep /usr | xargs rm -r next up is /etc. If there is more output afterwards something is either very weird or an intentional decision by me to store something in that location so it goes into the ignore file. On 20 April 2022 20:39:09 CEST, Harald Dunkel <ha...@afaics.de> wrote: >Hi folks, > >the upgrade guide claims > > A detailed cleanup can be done with the aid of the sysclean package. > >sysclean lists 4180 files and directories on my home server, including mail >directories, config files of various external packages, generated files, .git >directories, etc. A lot of stuff I wouldn't like to lose. Apparently it also >lists a lot of old crap, but since it lists *so many* important files I don't >trust it at all. > >Could you please elaborate how sysclean is going to help me to keep my openbsd >hosts clean? How is the usage model of this tool? > > >Thank you very much in advance >Harri > -- Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse poor formatting.
