Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:59:22 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: I am Insane <admin@iaminsane.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /] Message-ID: <20021105235922.GA1208@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3DC859E7.8040802@iaminsane.net> References: <3DC8558D.2030304@iaminsane.net> <3DC859E7.8040802@iaminsane.net>
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In the last episode (Nov 05), I am Insane said: > That's been my normal experience, / doesn't change in size except for a > small amount when I install important / major programs and even then it > usually isn't affected. However, I recently installed a few CPAN modules > in order to allow pop/imap-before-smtp (as I've found very little > information on it I've went with the one at > http://popbsmtp.sourceforge.net/ and the readme file states to install > the following: > % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Time::HiRes' > % perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::Tail ' > % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Parse' > % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Netmask' > which is when my root file system grew from 45MB or so to over 80MB > (normally stays around 45 on my systems) > So I'm trying to figure out why the CPAN modules made root jump to > almost double normal size and how/if there is any way to find out which > files are maybe source files and can be either moved and/or removed. Using CPAN ends up creating a huge ~/.cpan cache directory in root's home. You can install those modules from ports/packages instead. pkg_add -r p5-Net-Netmask p5-File-Tail p5-Time-HiRes Although I don't see one for Date::PArse. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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