Problem with old files in freebsd-update/files

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:48:31PM +0000, Janky Jay, III wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 02/27/2018 01:31 PM, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> >> FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE-p3 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Nov 14 09:06:09 UTC 2017
> >>
> >> I wrote about this before, and was told to use "pkg clean" to clean up old 
> >> files which I now do every week, but...
> > 
> > I have those files in /var/db/freebsd-update/
> > 
> > And if I want to clean them up, I do:
> > 
> > cd /var/db
> > mv freebsd-update fbsd-up-old
> > mkdir freebsd-update
> > chmod 700 freebsd-update
> > rm -rf fbsd-up-old
> 
> 	Out of curiosity, why not just:
> 
> ~ # rm -rf /var/db/freebsd-update/*
> 
> 	Is there a reason you're moving the directory and creating a new, empty
> one?

From time to time, there are tens of thousands of files directly in
this directory, and using * ends up saying that the argument list is too
long.


-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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