Questions tagged [cleanup]

Question 1

Problem: A lot of older workstations on our networks are running out of hard disk space and I am looking for ways to stream-line the process of cleaning up some space. I understand I can use Disk ...

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We have a header_checks regexp passed to the "cleanup" process, but it's not processing the header as a single header if it's on multiple lines. header_check (pass value of header to FILTER):...

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So this is a noob question. Why do we perform a clean up on a machine that has been infected with malware and not nuke it directly instead? I understand that in some situations this would not be ...

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So I have a project with large amount of build logs which previously inherited "delete after 91 days" rule from grandparent project. I am adding the specific "delete after 31 days" ...

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Users can create and save searches in Preferences // Bugzilla – Saved Searches Here they can publish them to a group Share With a Group and they will be listed for all users. Over the years the list ...

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We're trying to rewrite a draconian screen session killer for users who leave their screen sessions up for an inordinate amount of time and have in some way or other circumvented our session timeouts. ...

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I am setting up a VPS with Ubuntu 20.04 to host a phpBB board, say "myvps.myserviceprovider.com", to which "mydomain.net" is assigned. I also have defined the MX record for my ...

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WSUS has always been the bane of every IT Admin existence. How many threads do you find all with the same issue - the Server Cleanup wizard failing. The text below worked for me. I've tried ...

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My Client Computer Backups folder is over 1.2TB in size. There were total of 14 workstation, which I were able to remove 10 of them and delete their backups. But that only freed up about 30GB. Now ...

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I helped out a friend and we are trying to clean up an AD with messed up userdata. The upn, firstname and lastname and E-Mails are correct. But fields like "manager" or something like cost center are ...

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I have several cron tasks, each of which leaves a separate log file. Successful tasks generate no output, so I'm getting a lot of empty logs. I'd like to clean it up automatically every day. ...

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Windows has a tool called "Disk Cleanup" (German: Datenträgerbereinigung). There it lists "Debug Dump Files" which can be deleted. Unfortunately it doesn't tell me which files are meant. It can't be ...

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So here’s the scoop... I have a large list of over 3000+ resources across multiple subscriptions and dev/production tenants that I need to clean up. These are all sorts of resources including storage, ...

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I am trying to run clean jenkins workspace with rm -rf /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/* but I get permission denied for /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/* I see jenkins jenkins when I execute ll to check ...

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I was trying to install php7.3 to my ubuntu 16.04 machine. The SSH connection got dropped while the installation was running. I've been trying to search whether I need to do a "cleanup" before I go ...

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I tried to export a collection through the dspace packager but that leads me to a java exception: Exception: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/dspace/dspace/assetstore/24/53/70/...

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So I have an upstream WSUS server which never ran the cleanup wizard. The content folder is around 800GB and there were also a lot of unneeded product categories enabled including drivers. As a first ...

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We have a few Windows machines that have multiple Python installations on them, for various reasons. Who doesn't love legacy systems? In a bit of a clean up effort, I'd like to attempt to figure out ...

Question 19

Performing WSUS cleanup which hasn't been done for quite a while - running the cleanup-wizard with the only selected option being "unneeded update files": After about three minutes of ...

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I have a setup where users log into the host machine via PuTTY and can spawn Docker containers for their use. The Docker command looks like this: docker run -it --rm -v /home/$USER:/home/$USER -w="/...

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There are a couple of duplicate file finders for Linux listed e.g. here. I have already tried fdupes and fslint. However, from what I have seen, these will find all duplicates of the selected ...

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I have a challenge to clean the boot drive that is 100% full. I list previous versions: dpkg -l linux-image* And will get list of 12 versions, rc linux-image-4.4.0-45-generic 4.4.0-45.66 ...

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We start use Openstack some months ago, and realize that delete projects does not delete project content! we periodically create projects for users groups and delete when are not needed anymore, but ...

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I wrote the following script to delete all temp files and cached data from users profiles located on network share. It works fine when I run it locally on my machine but when I attempt to run it on ...

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I have installed things on my Linux VM on Windows Azure and now I need a clean server again, is there any chance of easy reinstall (for clean Linux again) rather than having to create the VM, cloud ...

Question 26

Users in my org use Outlook 2010 e-mail client with pop3 access to ZCS/OSE. These clients are using default "delete messages from server after 14 days" setting All message boxes are set up as follows: ...

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We're using TFS 2012 since 2013. In the mean time the database has increased up to ~60GB. This has several drawbacks like increased backup time, wast of drive space, ... After having a look into to '...

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One strategy being considered is: Advise users of the official locations that important working documents should be kept and that files kept in all other locations may be removed at will each month ...

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I have a directory with integration tests temporary files, which has the following structure: TestTemp --- Test01 (~1.5TB) --- Subdirectory01 (~100GB) -- Destination JSON (1-100MB) ...

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By what method are most system administrators managing the automatic cleanup of hundreds of thousands of old files across a wide range of folder locations? These folders are located across the ...

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I try to install vim-enhanced using #yum install vim-enhanced I got an error like this insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/updates/packages I found some answers to the this ...

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I am new to this position and find it's AD structure in need of a serious cleaning. There are over twice as many computer accounts as there are employees, not even taking into account servers. I'd ...

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i just installed Ubuntu server 13.04. What services can i disable/uninstall? All i want is to keep sshd (to connect to my vps) and whatever is absolutely needed for the system to run and get rid of ...

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On my small Debian squeeze web server, I have syslog-ng installed (not syslogd, like in this question). Generally, my logs are nice and quiet, with -- MARK -- lines. My /var/log/syslog, however, is ...

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I have privileges floating around in the mysql.* tables pertaining to users, databases and tables which no longer exist. Is there a simple way to find and remove these orphaned entries?

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Are there any tools available to automatically detect (and optionally correct) CNAME chains in BIND zone files? I am trying to clean up a rather large zone file (15,000+ resource records) so I'm ...

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I'm using zarafa with postfix. For privacy reasons I want to filter client internal IP-addresses and stuff like this. To do so I've added the following to master.cf: submission inet n - - ...

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The company I work at goes through computers fairly regularly. When we get a new computer, someone has to manually go through and remove all the bloatware that comes with the computer. Right now, I am ...

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I just discovered that an old MediaWiki of mine was infested with spam, and the database table named "text" (which contains the page content) is 3GB large. I've deleted all the spam pages manually, ...

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I'm taking to putting various files in /tmp, and I wondered about the rules on deleting them? I'm imagining it's different for different distributions, and I'm particularly interested in Ubuntu and ...

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What is the point of pruning old objects from Active Directory, especially computer accounts? If a computer is wiped or destroyed, then the stale computer account doesn't pose any security risk ...

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We are using Hyper-V R2 as a platform for virtualizing development and testing environment. After month of use, with creating / deletion of many virtual machine, the vhd store is filled with a lot of ...

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I have a dedicated server running SQL server and many web servers running SharePoint 2010 installations. All the SharePoint web servers are using the same SQL server for storing/creating databases. ...

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I have to run a non-trusted, third-party application on a linux server. The program should be run as a specified user for a limited time, for example 30s. During this period, the program can use all ...

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My MemcacheQ is started with: memcacheq -d -r -H /db/baamboo -N -R -L 2048 -T 300 -l 192.168.6.29 -p 22211 -u memcacheq -t 8 -m 512 -P /var/run/baamboo.pid -v It's eating the hard disk space. Found ...

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By doing an echo when I am logged in as root I can see I have a lot of junk in my PATH (probably from running tests and then forgetting all about it). What's the best way to clean it up? I am not ...

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I ran TFS Destroy on a file that was too long. But I forgot to add the /startcleanup command. It is now several days later and the file is still referenced in the TFS Database (or so says my ...

Question 48

I have a Maintenance Plan that is suppose to go through the BACKUP folder and remove all .bak older than 5 days. When I run the job, it gives me a success message but older .bak files are still ...

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I have a maintenance plan setup for a databases on a server. As part of the backup is a Maintenance Cleanup Task. SQL Version 2008 The task that 'succeeds' is setup as: Delete backup files Correct ...

Question 50

I have an SVN repository hosted on a freemium site with a maximum repository size. As I approach this capacity I am aware of files I've checked in that I know I can remove permanently to free up disk ...