From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 06:41:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571C816A41F for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:41:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rem@remdog.net) Received: from remdog.net (c-69-181-144-189.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [69.181.144.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D7643D49 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:41:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rem@remdog.net) Received: by bsd.remdog.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 073BC8030F; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:41:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: To: Daniel Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:41:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20050930064121.073BC8030F@bsd.remdog.net> From: rem@remdog.net (Rem P Roberti) Cc: Rem P Roberti , FreeBsd List Subject: Re: Portsclean X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:41:21 -0000 [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > On 9/30/05, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > I would like to add Portsclean to my crontab, but am uncertain about > > which switches to include with the command. Any comments on how to > > handle this would be appreciated. > > > > Rem > > portsclean -CD > > That will clean any created work directories and delete any > unreferenced distfiles > > Add another D and it will delete all distfiles that aren't part of an > installed package. > > Please be doing: man portsclean > And read about the different flags that are present. > Thanks for the reply. I did read the man page, but as a newbie I am sometimes confused by the choices. For example, why not also include the "L" and "P" switch? Thanks again. Rem