The thing I'm now trying to do is automate the cleaning out of things
left behind by akmod(?) after the weekly patch (dnf upgrade). A cron
job seems like the most natural way to do this. Since the patches are
weekly, I believe the cron job should be weekly, scheduled for a day and
time when the workstation is almost always up, but idling.
Here is my current /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/ directory:
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-bash.29[nvidia]: ls -la
total 60628
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 57344 Oct 24 11:01 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 akmods akmods 4096 May 15 18:42 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 535759 Oct 17 14:06
430.40-1-for-5.3.5-200.fc30.x86_64.log
-rw-r--r--. 2 root root 535714 Oct 24 11:01
430.40-1-for-5.3.6-200.fc30.x86_64.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12081124 Oct 3 11:54
kmod-nvidia-5.2.17-100.fc29.x86_64-430.40-1.fc29.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12081040 Oct 10 10:11
kmod-nvidia-5.2.18-100.fc29.x86_64-430.40-1.fc29.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12081932 Oct 10 15:31
kmod-nvidia-5.2.18-200.fc30.x86_64-430.40-1.fc30.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12078996 Oct 17 14:06
kmod-nvidia-5.3.5-200.fc30.x86_64-430.40-1.fc30.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12078980 Oct 24 11:01
kmod-nvidia-5.3.6-200.fc30.x86_64-430.40-1.fc30.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 2 root root 535714 Oct 24 11:01 .last.log
-bash.30[nvidia]:
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I have a few questions:
* Best practice is to have the job run as which user?
* I gather from the man pages for cron and crontab that there are
multiple crontabs. Best practice for this is to use which one?
* Is the command "rm -rf /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/*" good, overkill, or
not enough"
* Is best practice to edit the appropriate crontab with my favorite
editor, or is there a specific tool or command that I should use?
Anything else I should know before I do this?
thanks,
Bill.
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