Re: Cleaning up /var/sadm

From: Gary Lopez (gary@catapult.com)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2006 - 16:02:40 EDT


> Hello everyone,
> I am uncertain of the answer to this and maybe someone here might know.
> Is there any problems that would be created if anything from
> /var/sadm/pkg directory is deleted.
> I know these are mostly log files, but if they were deleted, does it
> cause any problems to the system?
>
> I.e. ./var/sadm/pkg/SUNWfnsx5/install
> ./var/sadm/pkg/SUNWfnsx5/save
> ./var/sadm/pkg/SUNWfnsx5
>
Thanks to everyone who responded. The consensus is not to delete them
because they can render a system unusable due to the fact the patches
applied on the system would not be known to the system.

Thanks for such a fast response.

-- 
Gary D Lopez
Unix Systems Administrator
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