Delete /var/log/setup.log.postinstall* ??

bse2000@gmx.de bse2000@gmx.de
Fri Jun 25 06:17:00 GMT 2004


OK thanks a lot!!

I remember that I'd problems during one of the last installations. I needed
to abort it and to run the installation again. May be this was the cause of
that big file.

/BSE

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
> 
> > At 05:53 PM 6/24/2004, you wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I have a setup.log.postinstall* file that is >1GB big.
> > >Since I'm running out of space, what happens if I delete this file?
> > >Is it save? Why is it so big?
> > >
> > >Thanks for any hints
> >
> > It's a log file for the output of the postinstall scripts that each
> > package has.  It's supposed to be deleted by default.  Maybe if
> > you had trouble while running 'setup' last time and it couldn't
> > finish.  In that case, it would get left behind.  You can delete it.
> 
> Actually, there is supposed to be a new such file created for every
> postinstall script setup runs.  So, the size of the file above indicates a
> runaway script to me.  It would be interesting to find out exactly which
> script got into an infinite loop.  Regardless of whether the file's
> contents are informative, though, it is certainly safe to delete it.
> HTH,
> 	Igor
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