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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: ports clean
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:27:15AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
> How con I run make clean in the /usr/ports directory and ensure the
> CPU does not get all eaten up?
> 
> I need to do this on two name servers so no users need to log in or
> anything...it can run for a whole day and not bother anyone.

"portsclean -C" does "rm -r /usr/ports/*/*/work"

You might add "nice +20" (or whatever the syntax is for your shell) in
front of that.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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