Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040624175411.032ce288@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:01:54 -0400 To: bse2000@gmx.de, cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Delete /var/log/setup.log.postinstall* ?? In-Reply-To: <26794.1088114030@www46.gmx.net> References: <26794.1088114030@www46.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/