Software Update Server on Mac OS X Server

[jjupin]

Hey, all,

I accidentally left that service running - and it caused my machine to get loaded with a bunch of mirror'd images of software packages. I've since turned the service off - but can't find where it places all the packages that it mirror'd. Can anyone direct me to where these reside so that I can remove them and recover my disk space back?

Many thanx!

[Whitehill]

On my system it's /usr/share/swupd/html. I think it's safe to discard everything in there. (Famous last words)

[jjupin]

that has the pointers to the html files and what not - but that directory doesn't hold the actual downloaded packages - even after I removed that, my disk is still 88% full - so still need to find where they hid those damn packages!

[Whitehill]

Hmmm. As of 7/4, mine contains 5 gb. I mirror the whole load - I don't have time to pick and choose and manage it by hand.

server:/usr/share/swupd/html mike$ ls -lrt
total 1544
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Mar 4 15:53 ../
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Mar 4 15:57 061-1955/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Mar 4 15:57 061-1684/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Mar 4 15:57 061-1534/
...
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jun 29 17:35 061-2592/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jun 29 17:35 zzz061-2623/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 281388 Jun 30 15:02 index.sucatalog.apple
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 250480 Jul 4 09:08 index.sucatalog.previous
drwxr-xr-x 160 root wheel 5440 Jul 4 11:14 ./
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 250480 Jul 4 11:14 index.sucatalog

server:/usr/share/swupd/html mike$ du -sk .
5171832 .

[jjupin]

It appears that 27G (of the 40G drive) was being used by this directory:

/var/log/samba

I don't remember starting a samba server - maybe software update server starts up one to manage it's affairs... don't know - all I do know is that I had to remove the .old file to recover my hard disk space...

thanx for your help...