Pingveno wrote: > As a horrible, horrible hack, you could just write a shell script to > be run by crond. I'm sure there's something better, though. > Well, right now I'm just doing a rm -rfv /usr/portage/distfiles/* every few hours. It works but it did fill up once. The system was still running but the emerge had failed. It couldn't create a directory that it needed, you know the rest. It did let me use the rm command though.
I'm trying to set up a rig for my Mom. I may be moving soon and I want her to learn how to use a puter, she's in her 70's so this will be fun, we tried once before. She has trouble grasping that she moves her hand and the mouse pointer moves. o_@ Clicking is fun too. LOL Maybe I can make it without to many more crashes. At least when it crashes it doesn't bork the whole system. Poor thing. 1GHz proc and 256MBs of ram and a whimpy sized, slow as syrup hard drive. :( Somewhat off topic, what files can I safely delete in /tmp and /var ? I know not to delete the logs but some stuff is taking up some space. It sort of needs it. Thanks Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
