General Maitenance of a linux system?
This is a discussion about General Maitenance of a linux system? in the Everything Linux category; In windows you gotta do your routine defrag, empty the cache, and clear out the old temp files. What do you needa to for linux? I found a /Tmp folder and a /tmp folder in my user/home/ directory (I'm assuming tmptemporary) Need to empty those folder im assuming, anything else for general linux maintenance?.
In windows you gotta do your routine defrag, empty the cache, and clear out the old temp files.
What do you needa to for linux? I found a /Tmp folder and a /tmp folder in my user/home/ directory (I'm assuming tmp==temporary)
Need to empty those folder im assuming, anything else for general linux maintenance?
What do you needa to for linux? I found a /Tmp folder and a /tmp folder in my user/home/ directory (I'm assuming tmp==temporary)
Need to empty those folder im assuming, anything else for general linux maintenance?
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The only thing I use is logrotate that will compress or delete anything old in /var/log. If you have it installed the config file for it is in /etc/logrotate.conf on debian. I'll also run a cleanup of core files and the /tmp directories every now and then. Oh and of course apt-get update && apt-get upgrade if you are on debian.
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I'm on a Mandrake system, kk then I can empty the /tmp folders (i have to log in X as root to empty this folder) , and there is a tmp folder in my user directory as well
Having files in /tmp won't hurt performance so unless you have space issues it's not necasary. You can delete the files in /tmp for root like so... if you are logged in as a regular user just open a terminal at the command prompt type su and you will be prompted for roots passwd just log in and type cd /tmp and then rm * to remove everything in /tmp
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Thanks
Seems faster after removing the tmp files, could be a placebo effect though.
Seems faster after removing the tmp files, could be a placebo effect though.
