[Spacewalk-list] Old spacewalk-channels in /var/cache/yum

Michael Mraka michael.mraka at redhat.com
Thu Jun 8 08:48:45 UTC 2017


Matthias Gruber:
> Hi!
> 
> I just noticed, that I have several of my spacewalk-channels have left in 
> /var/cache/yum which are eating up space, even if they are removed from 
> spacewalk.
> 
> We are generating monthly errata-channels to keep several states of 
> patched systems, e.g . clone-centos-server-02_2017; 
> clone-centos-server-03_2017 and so on.
> We are checking, that no system is subscribed to those channels we are 
> deleting from spacewalk.
> If I look into /var/yum/cache/.... I still see those channels with several 
> hundred MB/Mo 
> 
> Is there a way in SpaceWalk to remove them, well yes scheduled Command and 
> a simple rm -rf ... but it seems not a correct way.
> I thought if I unsubscribe a system from a channel all orccurences are 
> removed, even /var/cached stuff, but it doesnt seems like
> 
> Any clues for me, or is that a expected behaviour, but in that case I have 
> "hundreds" of Directories over the years

Hello Matthias,

There are two tools which can help you:
spacewalk-remove-channel
spaceewalk-data-fsck

Regards,

--
Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat




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